Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] open " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like he 'd been cut open and died and I put my hand in all among his intestines . ’ |
| 2 | When he came round he saw the side of the train had been ripped open . |
| 3 | The packet had been ripped open and a small bite was missing from one corner . |
| 4 | Chintz-covered cushions had been ripped open , left lying on the floor , stuffing scattered . |
| 5 | Riven examined his leg and found that his boot had been ripped open like paper , but that his calf was only scratched . |
| 6 | A second soldier burst through the door which had been blown open and fired his automatic rifle at the kitchen table , its powerful round of bullets knocking the head off the dummy planted in the chair . |
| 7 | They crossed the jetty to a large wooden door , which had been propped open with a three-legged stool . |
| 8 | All the windows had been flung open . |
| 9 | It sounded as though the door from the spiral staircase had been flung open . |
| 10 | Windows had been flung open in the close-packed buildings for fresh air to reach the stuffiest corner . |
| 11 | The gates of the prison had been flung open , after which it was up to everyone to save themselves . |
| 12 | It had been split open from neck to crotch . |
| 13 | The cask was later recovered , but it had been forced open and emptied . |
| 14 | It had been forced open . |
| 15 | But the Escort did n't stop , it came on until it blocked the road completely and before I could react , my door had been pulled open and a warrant card thrust in my face . |
| 16 | ‘ Did n't you say her handbag had been torn open , the contents gone except for the photo in a zipped pocket ? ’ |
| 17 | She had been torn open . |
| 18 | His trousers were still on , but the zip had been torn open , and there were few parts of his body tha– were not covered in bruises . |
| 19 | A sea valve had been left open on the tanker as she discharged her cargo at Esso 's Fawley Refinery on Sunday . |
| 20 | She was ‘ amazed ’ the way had been left open for Diana to still become queen . |
| 21 | She was thinking of the book that had been left open on the bedcover when she first visited ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 22 | At the very top of the structure , at the point of the cone , a space had been left open to let in the light . |
| 23 | For as to the last oracle , the Gospels had been left open , and there was a wind blew through from the south doorway and ruffled the pages over , turning back from John to Matthew . |
| 24 | The first set of amendments , which entered into force on Oct. 22 , 1989 , covered the provision of leak-detection systems or closed-circuit television to warn the crew if cargo doors had been left open . |
| 25 | He said McMullan hurled the bomb while McCrory stood with him and the two men escaped through Garland 's garden and house , the doors of which had been left open as pre-arranged . |
| 26 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 27 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 28 | Even the gaping hole left by de Bonneval 's precipitate retreat on Belleville Ridge had been plugged before the over-cautious Germans could exploit it — although it had been left open for twelve hours . |
| 29 | The envelopes had been slit open . |
| 30 | A bathroom had been laid open like a film set . |