Example sentences of "i [verb] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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1 | Before I 'd been salvaged by Martinho and Mrs Goreng they 'd had a Frenchman and a Philadelphian about three years previous who 'd written uncomfortable stuff about starving kids , flattened villages , and summary executions . |
2 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , turning sharply on her and utilizing advice I 'd been given by Charlie about the treatment of women : Keep 'em keen , treat 'em mean . |
3 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |
4 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
5 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
6 | I 'd been trained by the P-PRD Division . |
7 | Oh , it was eighteen months I should imagine , I was doing quite well , I 'd been praised by the head electrician and everything , for further advancement till er that particular incident stopped it . |
8 | On the other hand , I 'd been pulled by the cops for reasons not yet clear but had something to do with enigmatic Jo Scamp and her gaff in Sedgeley House . |
9 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
10 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
11 | After my tour of the exhibits I had been invited by the Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens to his dinner in the Senior Common Room , where , like other parts of the College , there were beautiful floral arrangements . |
12 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
13 | I had been touched by his kindness to my aunts , though later on it seemed more like arrogance than virtue . |
14 | I had been heartened by their performance , but Pat really thought that , in its basic approach , the Government was right . |
15 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
16 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
17 | Forbidden to speak any language but French , Marius and I had been punished by the Corporals for speaking English while dismantling the tents at Canjuers . |
18 | Already I had been corrupted by Mandru 's household . ’ |
19 | Trouble was I could never run very quickly , and I can not imagine what I would have done if I had been chased by the bull . |
20 | I had been asked by Professor John Mills and Dr James Waterhouse of Manchester School of Medicine to record my temperature every waking hour . |
21 | Around the middle of 1969 I had been asked by the Jockey Club whether I would join the board of United Racecourses , for one reason and one reason only : in order to keep the peace between the Jockey Club and Lord Wigg . |
22 | ‘ I had been threatened by my older brother years before not to tell anyone when he was ‘ experimenting ’ with me . |
23 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
24 | I also explained to him myself that I had been abused by my father , who was a doctor , and that I did not wish to be examined by a man . |
25 | By September , I had been joined by a director of studies and in November the first draft of a Development Plan for Banbury was published . |
26 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
27 | From that moment I knew I had been hit by something . ’ |
28 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
29 | She was n't too pleased , as she thought I had been coarsened by the whole experience , which was true . |
30 | ‘ He said I had been pardoned by the president . ’ |