Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 2 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 3 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 4 | She had been tortured with electric shocks — as had every teenager I met who had been detained during the township unrest . |
| 5 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 6 | I assumed it had been replaced , but in the circumstances … ’ |
| 7 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 8 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 9 | I imagined she 'd been knifed , violated . |
| 10 | I heard it had been said that it was discouraged but er |
| 11 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |
| 12 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 13 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 14 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 16 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 17 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 18 | When I looked it was a pellet and that was when I knew I had been shot . |
| 19 | From that moment I knew I had been hit by something . ’ |
| 20 | I saw everything had been tidied up . |
| 21 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought we had been hit in the starboard wing ’ , said the pilot F/O M G Johnson , of Geelong , Victoria , Australia . |
| 23 | When you flashed the Repo Man card I thought we 'd been infiltrated . |
| 24 | I thought they 'd been killed , she realized . |
| 25 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought it had been adjourned . ’ |
| 27 | My these they were , my recollection may be wrong , I thought it had been put to the yesterday and was that it was shouted a number of times but , you were there , it was only shouted once . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought you liked being left on your own . ’ |
| 29 | I thought I 'd been framed . ’ |
| 30 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |