Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [vb pp] by some " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 2 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 3 | The gallery itself looked as if it had been carved by some giant sculptor , minute details in the stonework wrought by caring as well as skilful hands . |
| 4 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 5 | as if he had been struck by some unseen force into stillness , he stopped , his right arm still embracing an imaginary figure , his left arm extended . |