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 . |