Example sentences of "had [been] totally [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her flat had suffered a lot of damage in the autumn gales and some of her recent writing had been totally destroyed at the first-draft stage . |
| 2 | I would look at it again , and see if it had been totally destroyed . |
| 3 | ‘ She had been totally geared up for a reconciliation , ’ says Columb Farrelly , then manager of Sinead 's band and the man who persuaded the troubled teenager to seek out her mother . |
| 4 | Even more important , the emperor 's participation , which had accounted for the selection of many eleventh-century popes ( and anti-popes ) had been totally rejected by 1179 . |
| 5 | How curious that she could now think of him without the tiniest pang ; it was as if the shadow of Max had been totally eclipsed by the substance of Luke — with all its ramifications . |
| 6 | The local pottery had been totally flooded out with the stock ruined . |
| 7 | Among them was George Donaldson , one of Scotland 's leading deaf men , who had been totally deafened by injury during the First World War . |
| 8 | The rather naive young man had been totally misled about what his needs should be — and , in addition , had some qualms as to the size of his penis which raised doubt in his mind as to whether the imagined deficiency was affecting sexual satisfaction for them both ( see page 77 ) . |
| 9 | She had been totally engrossed in her thoughts , but her body must have switched on to autodrive because she had managed to eat the food on her plate without really tasting it , and had probably contributed to the conversation without even being aware of what she was saying . |
| 10 | ‘ Hum — Perdita 's problem , ’ sighed Daisy whose tongue had been totally loosened by drink on no lunch . |
| 11 | I had been to my flat and there was nothing there — it had been totally cleared out . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'd had a heart attack and had been totally paralysed . ’ |
| 13 | Working flat out during the day , and immersed in reams of paperwork during the night , Ross had been totally absorbed in his battle to fight off the sharks who were attacking his financial empire . |
| 14 | The route back had been totally covered by snow . |
| 15 | A year or so after Prince Harry 's birth , there occurred a rather uncomfortable interview with both Waleses in discussion with Sir Alastair Burnet ( in November 1985 ) , in which it appeared that their roles had been totally reversed : the Princess had become articulate , while the Prince appeared almost monosyllabic . |
| 16 | Disabled housewives in particular had been totally left out of previous schemes . |
| 17 | Perhaps by now they had been totally cowed . ) |
| 18 | Mary had been totally excluded . |
| 19 | Her poor parents had been totally overwhelmed . |
| 20 | The lower limb , said Lovejoy , had been totally reorganised for upright walking and there were no compensatory modifications in the upper limb to suggest the creature was still partly arboreal . |
| 21 | In both Scotland and Lancashire it was barely 3,000 , while the militant Kent coalfield had been totally wiped out with the successive closures of Snowdon , Tilmanston and Betteshanger pits . |
| 22 | Although the wall foundations had been totally removed it was possible to see their ghost in the place where they had been . |
| 23 | But he said all had been totally dismantled since he came to power in 1989 and all South African nuclear facilities were open to scrutiny by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , whose inspectors were in the country at the moment . |
| 24 | At last she had been totally upstaged . |
| 25 | But Denis had been totally unnerved by the complete lack of fear or even concern the Jew had displayed at the sudden sight of the gun . |