Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been lent an old relegated rod with two mottled bamboo sections and a greenheart tip , a plastic centre-pin reel and a yellowed quill float . |
| 2 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 3 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |
| 4 | So if you 'd been given a free choice , you would n't have given your sweets to your brother , would you ? |
| 5 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 6 | She was just wondering if she 'd been given the wrong one when she realised that the door was n't locked . |
| 7 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 8 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 9 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 10 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 11 | Well , it had come about while he 'd been receiving the wet canvas treatment . |
| 12 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
| 13 | I stared into the mist until my eyes hurt , ahead , off both quarters , in case we 'd been carried the other way , even astern . |
| 14 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 15 | She 'd been set the huge task by Christian Aid on behalf of a family who fled to the camp from neighbouring war-torn Mozambique . |
| 16 | ( Anyone would think you 'd been offered the leading role in the latest Spielberg epic , for God 's sake , you 're supposed to be depressed or something . |
| 17 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 18 | The unwary were apt to buy a ‘ pig in a poke ’ ( sack ) and find out later they 'd been sold a muted pup . |
| 19 | As soon as she 'd entered the hotel she 'd been handed a white envelope containing a fax message . |
| 20 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 21 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 22 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 23 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 24 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 25 | Mr Butler had been taking a collection-box home when he was attacked on the Tube , kicked in the face , kneed in the stomach , had his head banged against a door and almost strangled . |
| 26 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 27 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 28 | He had been serving a 20-year term in Nicosia 's central prison . |
| 29 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 30 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |