Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They too are all people who 'd been made redundant . |
| 2 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 3 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 4 | He he was very excitable , excitable and he was angry erm he was shouting at me er that he 'd been spreadeagled naked er on the floor , guns had been pointed at him and his front door had been smashed down and his er his family , his wife and children had been frightened . |
| 5 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 6 | Like he 'd been cut open and died and I put my hand in all among his intestines . ’ |
| 7 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |
| 8 | He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up . |
| 9 | if you 'd been buried alive you think |
| 10 | It was as though she 'd been let loose from shackles she had n't even known she 'd been wearing . |
| 11 | Tonight , one of Hadley 's victims described her anger towards him , and her relief he 'd been found guilty . |
| 12 | He 'd been told various stories that had supplied small but interesting details about Mandru 's personality and private life . |
| 13 | Shortly after his death , I was working a ‘ noon and night ’ at a local Working Men 's Club when the top of the bill — a Welsh comic called Dave Swan — was unable to do the evening performance , as he 'd been taken ill . |
| 14 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 15 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 16 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |
| 17 | It could be said that her rights were born together with her ; and from birth with her guardian 's help she could bring the action and endeavour to show that the injury from which she suffered was caused prior to her birth through the fault of the defendant . |
| 18 | This was followed by public presentations and exhibitions , based on the early draft by the council , throughout the region , and criticism received was considered prior to submitting the draft structure plan to the Secretary of State . |
| 19 | Breeze , scarlet-cheeked by this time — for she hated being made conspicuous — edged her way into the corridor . |
| 20 | In this context , it should be noted that the rapid demolition of the colleges of education which followed was made possible by a unique regulator placed in the hands of the Secretary of State ; unlike the universities which are protected by a degree of autonomy and the polytechnics which are subject to a variety of controls and influences , overall teacher-training numbers and their distribution between individual institutions are directly controlled by the DES . |
| 21 | M. A. Boscq , Ingenieur-General , Ministere de l'Agriculture Services Regionaux at Lempdes ensured that more information than I required was made available to me ; M.Jean Leblanc of his staff went to considerable lengths to both provide and help interpret various policy papers and reams of data . |
| 22 | The tax remissions of the first half of the fifteenth century show that some of the villages which later disappeared were granted substantial reliefs , although this was not universal . |
| 23 | Both the external images of apartness and the usefulness of the attitudes they represented were considered questionable . |
| 24 | John Lucas , the future philosopher , remembered being taught Greek grammar by Ramsey and sitting on his head while reciting Greek verbs . |
| 25 | Medical evidence would be relevant only to establish whether what the doctor did was deemed acceptable medical practice to make the dying patient comfortable . |
| 26 | The answer they devised is called Compact Disc Interactive ( CD-I ) . |
| 27 | I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers . |
| 28 | Nezavisimaya gazeta of Sept. 18 reported that the withdrawal of the Russian regiment stationed in Kishinev [ see p. 39060 ] had been halted due to Moldovan Defence Ministry protests over the removal of military equipment which it claimed should be transferred to the republic . |
| 29 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |
| 30 | Last night 's lesson had been taught blind , there was no way of knowing how many had survived to get it by heart . |