Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.

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1 She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town .
2 And the hair that looked as though it had been dramatically carved out of something shiny rather than been grown in the normal way .
3 Disabled housewives in particular had been totally left out of previous schemes .
4 She felt as if the breath had been suddenly knocked out of her .
5 Mitch did not know where she was either and seemed to think that she had been deliberately keeping out of his way .
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