Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For part of the trip in a flat bed truck they 'd been acompanied by armed guards , but no-one had told them why . |
| 2 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 3 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 4 | Mina said Gustav said she 'd been killed by Allied planes . |
| 5 | A factory worker has been describing how he tried in vain to save a colleague who 'd been overcome by toxic fumes . |
| 6 | She 'd been waylaid within ten feet of the front door , which did n't surprise me , by a chinless wonder in a baggy suit and powder blue trainers ( nobody wears trainers with a suit any more ) . |
| 7 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 8 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 9 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 10 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 11 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 12 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 13 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 14 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 16 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 18 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 19 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 20 | Oliffe 's job , according to his defence , was to fatten up animals over the winter , and this was the first time he 'd been accused of ill-treating animals . |
| 21 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 22 | Even now , of course , her mother would deny that she 'd been driven by physical needs — she still insisted on living the lie that hers had been a love-story doomed to disaster . |
| 23 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 24 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 25 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 26 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 27 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 28 | We watched the emergence of one moth ; it crept out from its pale yellow papery cocoon , and clung to the stem of grass to which the cocoon had been fixed with silken threads . |
| 29 | Where previous discussions about the Britishness of British films had been coloured by official concerns about national status , and cinema 's role in boosting American economic might , filmmakers increasingly focused on the possibility that good stories might be British stories . |
| 30 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |