Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She apologised , over the phone , the next day ; she 'd been hiding under the bedclothes , playing her favourite David Bowie cassette at maximum volume on her Sony Walkman , trying to drown the noise of the thunder . |
| 2 | After all , he 'd been ferreting in the records for a good while . ’ |
| 3 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 4 | Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches , but he 'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion . |
| 5 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |
| 6 | A man who 'd been scalded in the kitchens by cooking oil . |
| 7 | Simon Maggs , from Cheltenham , who admits he has a criminal record , says Sgt Williams stamped on his leg , after he 'd been put in the police van . |
| 8 | She , she 'd been told by the Reeds that |
| 9 | Mr was well aware because he 'd been told by the plaintiffs solicitors that the plaintiffs received terms for cover or to obtain interest on their costs , the plaintiffs solicitors wrote specifically to Mr enquiring was his offer in , in the sum of forty two thousand pounds , that 's er the possible agreed settlement figure for costs , er if it was inclusive or exclusive of interest erm there were some delay but er Mr wrote back in due course making clear that interest was n't included , I should also say that in Mr er proposed bill of costs he had disallowed interest for a fairly short period in respect of both the plaintiffs bill of costs and the defendants bill of costs and the plaintiffs solicitors do n't appear to have erm taken any point on that , but as I say it , the point as to interest was specifically raised by the plaintiffs solicitors letter and er I 'm quite satisfied on the correspondence that they when it came to the matter were seen , were desires of obtaining interest in respect of their costs . |
| 10 | She 'd been introduced to the others initially as a friend . |
| 11 | On the other hand , I 'd been pulled by the cops for reasons not yet clear but had something to do with enigmatic Jo Scamp and her gaff in Sedgeley House . |
| 12 | It seemed as bright as day out on the newly-laid forecourt and it was as if she 'd been caught by the lights , trapped and dazed like a rabbit on a long country road . |
| 13 | I helped along people who 'd been caught by the police , sentenced by the court and had their death warrant signed by the Home Secretary . |
| 14 | I helped along people who 'd been caught by the police , sentenced by the court and had their death warrant signed by the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | Dot knew from their voices that those two young men who 'd been working in the fields must be prisoners . |
| 16 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 17 | She was still in her night things , and somehow did n't seem able to make the simplest connections in her mind ; right hand hugging her left elbow , she 'd been rocking herself gently ever since she 'd been wakened by the sounds of garage doors opening and cars being started in the mews outside her window . |
| 18 | Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway played with phallic imagery , played sexy , played violent and played Robin Hood by robbing banks to help farmers who 'd been foreclosed by the banks . |
| 19 | It was a little husband who 'd been sleeping under the covers . ’ |
| 20 | Léonie kept her hands outside the covers as she had been taught by the nuns at her primary school . |
| 21 | Ari had been struck by the smells of Arcady more than anything . |
| 22 | Hitherto , her parents ' requests for withdrawal of her life-support measures had been denied by the courts on the grounds that the patient 's own wishes in the matter were unclear , and that nobody else was competent to make the decision on her behalf . |
| 23 | It was covered in lettering and had been riveted to the trousers , as if Grandson Richard was some sort of machine . |
| 24 | Breeze had been gazing at the lights for so long that she was quite dazzled . |
| 25 | The two countries ' Foreign Ministers had been presented with the proposals by Pérez de Cuéllar at the ninth Non-aligned Movement ( NAM ) summit earlier in the month [ see p. 36907 ] . |
| 26 | On Thursday the FBI played through loudspeakers tapes of previous conversations between negotiators and Koresh and a cult member , Steve Schneider , to make certain that all 105 followers still inside the compound were aware of what had been presented in the talks . |
| 27 | Bonaventure with a cheque for £8,000 , which had been raised over the years by the people of Hemlington for their centre . |
| 28 | No less that £3,559 had been raised by the branches in various ways — £2,616 from members ' subscriptions and students ' fees , £617 from socials , rummage sales and other fund-raising activities , £53 from sales of literature and so on . |
| 29 | He was a local man , born within ii myles of Stopporte " , and had been appointed by the Goldsmiths on 28th October 1534 . |
| 30 | Broken glass and china lay everywhere , littered across the torn remains of the carpet which had been ripped from the stairs . |