Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 4 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 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 | We 'd been bickering since New Year and she 'd flounced out of my city flat in early May , darkly muttering , Nevermore ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 10 | The fifty nine year old singer who 'd been dogged by ill health died at his home in Arbroath on Monday . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , all attacks by the German centre , west of Verdun and at Nancy , had been halted with heavy loss . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But when the first baiter led his teams on to an unploughed field he did not have to trouble his head about the width of the stetches : that had been fixed by long usage and probably appeared to him then as unalterable an aspect of the landscape as the roads and the hedges . |
| 19 | This change was marked by the arrival on 1 June of Air Commodore Hugh Pughe Lloyd , M.C. , D.F.C. , to take over as A.O.C. from A.V.M. Maynard , A.F.C. Newly-promoted from the rank of Group Captain , Lloyd had been serving as Senior Air Staff Officer with No.2 Group of Bomber Command . |
| 20 | Pc Geoff Towle , secretary of the federation 's Derbyshire branch , said the quota system had been operated by senior CID men who did little to conceal it . |
| 21 | Where previous discussions about the Britishness of British films had been coloured by official concerns about national status , and cinema 's role in boosting American economic might , filmmakers increasingly focused on the possibility that good stories might be British stories . |
| 22 | A liaison had been struck with Spanish designer Juan de la Cierva for G & J Weir to licence build his autogiros . |
| 23 | When its near discordant notes gave way to Rooster and the driving beat of early Rolling Stones music , it was as if the the group and the whole theatre had been struck by benign lightening . |
| 24 | Normally used as a storeroom-cum-gallery , it had been cleared of extraneous clutter . |
| 25 | By one year , 12 recurrences had been diagnosed by ultrasonagraphy but only seven had been detected by oral cholecystectography . |
| 26 | Grb2 binding of Sos1 in vitro facilitated the rapid mapping of the sites of interaction : the SH3 domains were clear candidates for interaction on the Grb2 protein because mutation in these domains had been detected in genetic screens in worms , and indeed both SH3 domains of Grb2 are required for high-affinity binding . |
| 27 | In rejecting the full Copernican scheme , Tycho had been swayed by biblical considerations and by the failure to detect stellar parallax , which , if Copernicus were right , would entail an enormous gap between the outermost planet and the closest of the stars — a gap that he , and Catholic scholars too , found unacceptable on aesthetic grounds . |
| 28 | In this case we were lucky and the route had been re-equipped with new bolts placed in between the old bolts . |
| 29 | County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket . |
| 30 | By 1723 , ninety-nine cottages had been erected on small pieces of land taken from the wastes . |