Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For part of the trip in a flat bed truck they 'd been acompanied by armed guards , but no-one had told them why . |
| 2 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 3 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 4 | We 'd been visited by 700 people . |
| 5 | Mina said Gustav said she 'd been killed by Allied planes . |
| 6 | A factory worker has been describing how he tried in vain to save a colleague who 'd been overcome by toxic fumes . |
| 7 | She 'd been waylaid within ten feet of the front door , which did n't surprise me , by a chinless wonder in a baggy suit and powder blue trainers ( nobody wears trainers with a suit any more ) . |
| 8 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 9 | His solicitor said for some reason he 'd been involved since last December in a campaign of total destruction of both himself and other people , but now there was some hope for the future . |
| 10 | Although he 'd been kept in secure accommodation 3 times in his life , he was now in a stable relationship with a new foster mother . |
| 11 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 12 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 13 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 14 | The fifty nine year old singer who 'd been dogged by ill health died at his home in Arbroath on Monday . |
| 15 | she 'd been put on that file — ‘ just by mistake ’ , |
| 16 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 17 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 18 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 19 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 21 | She 'd been married in that hat . |
| 22 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 23 | The first was some eight years ago when he 'd been accused of shoddy workmanship on a car which had been involved in a crash two days after he 'd MOTed it . |
| 24 | Oliffe 's job , according to his defence , was to fatten up animals over the winter , and this was the first time he 'd been accused of ill-treating animals . |
| 25 | Even now , of course , her mother would deny that she 'd been driven by physical needs — she still insisted on living the lie that hers had been a love-story doomed to disaster . |
| 26 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , all attacks by the German centre , west of Verdun and at Nancy , had been halted with heavy loss . |
| 28 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 29 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 30 | We watched the emergence of one moth ; it crept out from its pale yellow papery cocoon , and clung to the stem of grass to which the cocoon had been fixed with silken threads . |