Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 2 | Not even squatters camped in this place , so more likely they 'd been broken by locals scavenging for carpets or pipes . |
| 3 | She was trapped , as helpless as if she 'd been bound in chains . |
| 4 | She 'd been robbed of words , had no speech to tell him to stop this glorious torture , could only groan deep in her throat as his questing fingers flickered over one nipple , bringing it to prominent life even through the material of her leotard . |
| 5 | That was pretty stupid , because not only was he on the list of residents , but he 'd been seen at mealtimes by several of the other members . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 8 | Alan Stewart , who 'd been arrested by police six months ago and questioned about allegations of indecency , was on the staff of New Barns School at Toddington in Gloucestershire when it closed in the autumn . |
| 9 | Even she , who 'd been propositioned by experts , had to admit that . |
| 10 | Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows . |
| 11 | They 'd been muffled with rags and pieces of tyre , but it was still a lash-up . |
| 12 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 13 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 14 | Two pieces of steel had been fixed in vices and the two men had set to work on them simultaneously . |
| 15 | He was not lying when , in Wednesday 's rather pitiful TV interviews aimed at persuading his party not to dump him , he said he had been inundated with letters of support from the world of music , opera , theatre , films and sport . |
| 16 | Could I let them have the exact name of the coffin-manufacturers who had supplied me , as they had been inundated with calls asking for it and , having no success with the number supplied by Directory Enquiries , were needing further information . |
| 17 | He took the tube from a drawer , and when the desk-top had been cleared of papers the plans were spread open . |
| 18 | It had been cleared of papers ; the typewriter was covered and the chair pushed firmly into place . |
| 19 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 20 | Because every entrance had been blocked with trees . |
| 21 | Lucille , a Norman , had been raised on stories of the merciless English pirates who lived just across the Channel and who , for centuries , had raided her homeland to kill and burn and plunder . |
| 22 | Whether these children had been raised by wolves or simply abandoned and left to their own devices in the forest is unclear . |
| 23 | Megaw LJ 's argument depended on contrasting what would have happened if the auditors had been appointed as arbitrators . |
| 24 | And when eventually the colobus had been ripped into pieces , and the forest went quiet , he pointed out the way the chimps shared their spoils with their nearest relatives . |
| 25 | It seems most likely , however , that it was a word like ‘ Teddy Boy ’ or ‘ Mod ’ or ‘ Skinhead ’ which , coming out of the popular culture of working-class London , had been adopted by youths in some localities in order to describe themselves and what they took for their common identity . |
| 26 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 27 | During the morning the accumulated household junk had been stacked in piles beside the steps . |
| 28 | Her ambitious trek to the distant city had been curtailed by protests from her overworked nervous system , crying for more of whatever the pink cans contained . |
| 29 | She lost her way ; new fiats had been built across roads marked in the A to Z , and it was difficult to find anyone who had heard of Leominster Gardens . |
| 30 | Unlike its smaller , sea-going companion however , it had been built on blocks . |