Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It worried her that he 'd been secretly observing her . |
| 2 | How stupid she 'd been not to realise it from the start . |
| 3 | But the market would be affected , particularly as the disappointed broker had n't hesitated to tell everyone how lucky he 'd been not to drop a packet on Dreadnought , which had gone straight to the bottom like a stone in a pond . |
| 4 | Sam Yaeger spent Monday at the boatyard because he 'd been medically stood down from racing as a result of a fall , but by Tuesday he was racing again , and on Wednesday he rode at Ascot , so the boathouse was vulnerable all day Tuesday and again Wednesday morning . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd told her I 'd been away filming in Scotland that night . ’ |
| 6 | We 'd been heavily blitzed and this gave us the opportunity to think big and boldly and to think philosophically . |
| 7 | She 'd been badly beaten up , poor kid . |
| 8 | He 'd been badly beaten and his throat had been cut . |
| 9 | But the prosecution says she 'd been badly beaten around the head before she died . |
| 10 | He had only one more room to do , he said , and he should have finished long before this but he 'd been badly delayed in the car on the other side of the dining car , which he had in his care also . |
| 11 | All of us — my mother , my sister and I — were determined to spare him any more hospitals : he 'd been badly burned during the war and had a horror of them . |
| 12 | He said he was called Prentice and he was a detective-sergeant and he 'd been well trained in the most vicious of police techniques : politeness and reasonableness . |
| 13 | Two detectives accused of altering a suspect 's statement to conceal the fact that he 'd been unlawfully arrested have been cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice . |
| 14 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 15 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 16 | Robert Brown was suspended as head of the lower school at Pates Grammar in Cheltenham last year after the girl alleged she 'd been indecently assaulted . |
| 17 | She 'd been completely refitted in Gloucester docks and was on her way to Southampton via the Gloucester to Sharpness canal . |
| 18 | But you see , if I 'd been properly organised , none of these disasters would have happened . |
| 19 | I know but it 's just , waste of time in it ? they 'd been better spent to finish the order that they did have , and inject that , ha oh be fair to do that to use though , no doubt they will , pick out all the things we did n't do right bloody should done too many of this or not enough of that |
| 20 | The nomes , who 'd been silently reading along with her , shivered . |
| 21 | ‘ Where there 's money to be made you can bet there 's someone making it , ’ said an old man who 'd been silently working his spindle since the conversation began . |
| 22 | He could n't remember whether they 'd been fully done up or simply pushed through loosely . |
| 23 | But even if she 'd been fully clothed the chance of escape was gone before it arrived . |
| 24 | I do n't think they 'd been actually taken from what I can gather . |
| 25 | She 'd been all set to enjoy being here , and had momentarily forgotten how taciturn her minder could be . |
| 26 | He 'd been all set to save England and I 'd stopped him . |
| 27 | I was in some doubt as to whether the Corporal had stumbled upon us accidentally on his way out of the town or if he 'd been deliberately tasked . |
| 28 | She 'd been sexually assaulted and strangled and her body forced into a suitcase measuring 2 ft 10 by 2 ft 6 . |
| 29 | He said his name was John and that he 'd been sexually abused as a child . |
| 30 | Before she was killed she 'd been sexually abused . |