Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd been gone several days before Trueman did it . |
| 3 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it . |
| 7 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |
| 8 | The two groups on the four- and five-year study programme had been denied any science education at all in pre-independence Namibia . |
| 9 | Twenty one years earlier , Franco had been denied this decoration . |
| 10 | Eventually , after the subject had been raised many times by the Inspector , the CEGB gave in and agreed to produce the figures ‘ without prejudice , to its main argument . |
| 11 | In the period before 1910 about 85,000 new houses had been built each year , but after the introduction of Land Values Duties the building rate fell sharply . |
| 12 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 13 | It was from Camilla Parker-Bowles and had been written several days before the engagement was officially announced . |
| 14 | The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah . |
| 15 | By its appearance it had been cooked several days ago . |
| 16 | Michael had been sent this manuscript by another of his clients , the writer and broadcaster Bryan Magee , who also happened to be Cooper 's MP . |
| 17 | In 1988 , the Sunday Times Insight team had been sent this dossier , read it and chose not to rely on it . |
| 18 | The teacher had been sent some worksheets to try out . |
| 19 | A British team managed to reach one that , although it had been hooked several hours before , was still just living when its captor got it ashore . |
| 20 | A post mortem showed 80year-old Mr Goult , known as ‘ Old Jack ’ , had been stabbed many times in the chest at his home in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , Liverpool . |
| 21 | She had been stabbed several times . |
| 22 | He had been christened that morning and died the same afternoon . |
| 23 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 24 | The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm . |
| 25 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 26 | Dinner had been strained that evening . |
| 27 | Dr Nakajima , accompanied on his tour by Dr Jo Asvall , head of WHO 's European regional office in Copenhagen , said that he had been asked several times if Yugoslav funds frozen in the US and other countries could not be used for purchase of medical supplies . |
| 28 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |
| 29 | Over the mince pies and wine we learned that the Bala band had been formed many years before and had faithful musicians and followers . |
| 30 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |