Example sentences of "[vb past] be born [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 2 | She 'd been so sure he 'd been born to money . |
| 3 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 4 | If she 'd been born on time this party would n't have happened until Christmas . |
| 5 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 6 | If she had the sense she 'd been born with she 'd get up from the table right now , wish him a polite good evening , and scuttle back to the safety of the dressing-room , there to make a pledge never to risk being in his company again . |
| 7 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 8 | It was n't her real name and — like Horowitz — she 'd been born in Hungary . |
| 9 | Ted was a child of the sixties , but he sounded as if he 'd been born in the Blitz . |
| 10 | TOTALLY UNKNOWN US bluesman comes to Britain and gets schlepped into a studio to record with a bunch of locals who wish they 'd been born in America 's Deep South . |
| 11 | She saw him scowl darkly as he scanned the page , and wondered for a few moments if perhaps , although he could speak her tongue almost as if he 'd been born in her country , he did not read English so well . |
| 12 | Her first baby had been born with a genetic disease and had died , but the disease had not been diagnosed until she was pregnant with her second child . |
| 13 | In it she recounts trying to come to terms with the fact that two of her four sons had been born with severe abnormalities . |
| 14 | He had been born with a photographic memory and an unlimited store for knowledge , and the capacity to gather and keep information on any subject under the sun . |
| 15 | The fact that all three babies had been born with an incurable heart condition was characteristic of the Rollerson side of the family , but Maud preferred to blame her husband , and the marriage suffered as a consequence . |
| 16 | He had been born with a hare-lip , which had been corrected when he was a baby , but he was nervous . |
| 17 | Lisa , now 14 , had been born with a rare bone condition , Spondylo Epiphyseal Dysplacia . |
| 18 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 19 | She wondered how much of what she had been born with was left . |
| 20 | He had been born with a curved spine and stood five feet . |
| 21 | He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul . |
| 22 | Over in Gioia del Colle , a child had been born with a lucky mole , said another . |
| 23 | When he was living in his body , he had it made over so many times that there was hardly any of what he had been born with left . |
| 24 | She did n't know that Aisling had been born with a severe ‘ port wine stain ’ . |
| 25 | In June 1940 , Dean Pollard had reported to the committee that an infant , Margaret C. , who had been born at St. Peter 's , and who had a double harelip and cleft palate , had been referred to the Children 's Hospital , Great Ormond Street . |
| 26 | One hundred and thirteen had been born at term and the others at a median gestational age of 32 weeks ( range 24–36 ) ; none of the latter had been discharged from their neonatal unit on additional inspired oxygen . |
| 27 | Carol had been born at Christmas twenty-seven years ago — how long ago it seemed . |
| 28 | Donna Hazell had been born at Thorn House on the same day as herself ! |
| 29 | He had been born on Easter Day , surely the most hopeful date in all the year . |
| 30 | He had been born on a Junker estate at Schönhausen in Brandenburg in 1815 , and his family had moved to Kniephof in Pomerania soon afterwards . |