Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 2 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 3 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 4 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 5 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 6 | It was quite away from the area I 'd been brought up in , but I got to like it and make friends , and I got more independent . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish I 'd been brought up in one of these , ’ he said , ‘ rather than a tower block . |
| 8 | Which would presumably be the one I 'd been brought out through . |
| 9 | ‘ How could I have been taken in by his charm ? ’ |
| 10 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
| 11 | Typical of the man , Ashe seemed more concerned about my welfare , hearing that I had been beaten up outside the stadium by a stick wielding Army officer , than his own . |
| 12 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 13 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 14 | I said I had been knocked out by a shell-blast . |
| 15 | I had been brought up to be a hero . |
| 16 | I had been brought up as a Congregationalist . |
| 17 | In 1966 I moved from the world of ‘ real polising ’ into areas of operational marginality which were further to confound the preference for the clearly delineated police world I had been brought up in . |
| 18 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 19 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 20 | I had been taken out to lunch by Wakefield 's grandparents one Sunday . |
| 21 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 22 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 23 | ‘ Look , I 've been bounced around like a rubber ball between you people for a couple of months now . |
| 24 | I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money . |
| 25 | And I 'm effectively shut up because I 've been kicked out of my job and a ] so because you do n't seem to have heard a word I 've been saying . ’ |
| 26 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 27 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 29 | Myler said : ‘ I 've been fed up of injuries and played only eight matches last season after a neck operation . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been hosed down with cold water while standing naked in the snow , ’ said one man . |