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Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	The levels of NC protein used were chosen such that the higher level completely retarded DNA migration on an agarose gel while the lower level gave intermediate retardation .
2	They too are all people who 'd been made redundant .
3	I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school .
4	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 . ’
5	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 .
6	I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that .
7	I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter ,
8	She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’
9	When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son .
10	Because of his experience , he 'd been taken further into God 's Kingdom , he 'd been given that vision into God 's Kingdom , now that 's more than just been given your eyesight , cos there 's a lot of people will see , who have their eyesight intact , but refuse to have the vision that was necessary to accept Jesus , new kingdom .
11	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 .
12	‘ He 'd been gone several days before Trueman did it .
13	Like he 'd been cut open and died and I put my hand in all among his intestines . ’
14	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 .
15	They 'd been shot 21 times .
16	He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh .
17	The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so .
18	She wished she could say she knew she was being difficult and edgy , taking it out on him because she 'd been denied another child .
19	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 .
20	Even from this distance it was clear he 'd been hit several times in the chest and there was also red paint all over his visor .
21	if you 'd been buried alive you think
22	It was as though she 'd been let loose from shackles she had n't even known she 'd been wearing .
23	Tonight , one of Hadley 's victims described her anger towards him , and her relief he 'd been found guilty .
24	He was he 'd been hurt that was the usu that 's why some of the men did .
25	Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves .
26	He 'd been told that often enough in the old days .
27	He 'd been told various stories that had supplied small but interesting details about Mandru 's personality and private life .
28	Only last april they 'd been told three hundred and fifty jobs were being axed — now comes todays announcement of more .
29	This year alone he 'd been arrested twenty three times .
30	The police say he 'd been arrested last month and questioned about threats to Mrs Smith , but he 'd been released on police bail pending further enquiries .