Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not even squatters camped in this place , so more likely they 'd been broken by locals scavenging for carpets or pipes . |
| 2 | And had Andy Thompson scored with a penalty after he 'd been fouled by Simon Sturridge , Turner would have been even more comfortable . |
| 3 | Daffy was shattered by the news that he 'd been replaced by Essex 's reprieved rebel tourist Neil Foster . |
| 4 | Daffy was shattered by the news that he 'd been replaced by Essex 's reprieved rebel tourist Neil Foster . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , turning sharply on her and utilizing advice I 'd been given by Charlie about the treatment of women : Keep 'em keen , treat 'em mean . |
| 6 | ‘ When I found out you 'd been sacked by Mallender Marine , I thought you might be able to supply the proof I need . |
| 7 | Before I 'd been salvaged by Martinho and Mrs Goreng they 'd had a Frenchman and a Philadelphian about three years previous who 'd written uncomfortable stuff about starving kids , flattened villages , and summary executions . |
| 8 | Next up was a hard-looking fellow I remembered as one of the surviving Africa veterans , a prodigal who 'd been seduced by Martinho but had redeemed himself by daring and sacrifice under Osvaldo — I was surprised he was still alive . |
| 9 | Mr George , who has lived with Gardiner 's wife Maggie for five years , said he 'd been told by Simon James that he ( James ) had driven Chalky White a to a place where Danny gardiner had killed him . |
| 10 | Topaz Chilcott would give her a sly looks She 'd been told by Tipper , who would n't leave the subject alone , that all tinkers were sly . |
| 11 | The Western powers — you 'll recall the reports — were shamed by the plight of hundreds of thousands of Kurds who 'd been encouraged by Bush to rise up against Saddam and who 'd ended as refugees scattered like strewn rags across mountains on the Turkey-Iraq border . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As they drove through rolling hills topped by Mohican clumps of trees and moved into the leafy green tunnels of Petersfield , his bride , who 'd been primed by Drew , put her hand on her husband 's cock and suggested that it would be more fun to stop and have their picnic in a field than join the crowds at Cowdray . |
| 14 | So how come you were so well informed , unless you 'd been primed by Lotta in the role of confederate ? ’ |
| 15 | Susan 's eyes grew wide as Maggie told her about her ride on the telegraph pole , ending up at The Haven where she 'd been rescued by Bryce . |
| 16 | Even she , who 'd been propositioned by experts , had to admit that . |
| 17 | Who was she , who 'd been crucified by Hamish 's departure , to hanker after someone else 's husband ? |
| 18 | They were formed at the same time as the Quakers , actually , in sixteen fifty-two , and the main erm belief of the group was that John Reeve and his cousin Ludowick Muddleton were the two prophets who 'd been chosen by God as the last witnesses in the Book of Revelation . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | For much of the century , their daily rate had been fixed by statute , initially in 1721 at 2s or 2s 6d ( 10-12½p ) per day , but they were hardly ever able to find employment constant enough to earn more than 9s ( 45p ) a week , and in their slack months even less . |
| 21 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 22 | A recently qualified medical student from St. Mary 's , C. G. Paine , who had been taught by Fleming and who had gone to work in the Royal Infirmary at Sheffield , obtained a sample of the mould from his former teacher and carried out some clinical experiments with it . |
| 23 | This company has now expanded to three other yards including the former British Shipbuilders Hadrian Yard ( Clellands ) at Wallsend , and the Wallsend Slip way which had been operated by Howard Doris Ltd. for the offshore industry until the demise of that operation in 1986 . |
| 24 | Before treatment , H pylori colonisation of the gastric mucosa had been detected by urease test and histology in all patients ( microscopically , after methylenblue staining in 37 and after culture in 31 patients ) . |
| 25 | Though the Greater Manchester pension fund investment had been blocked by Stockport council , the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive was still game , and Everett picked up a cheque for £175,000 from a suspicious representative who demanded proof that he was really the man from Guinness Mahon . |
| 26 | The Macedonian government was able to press its claim for recognition , which had been blocked by Greece , by threatening that war was around the corner . |
| 27 | Wolves looked to have earned a point when , after a free-kick had been blocked by Forrest , Mutch followed up to equalise . |
| 28 | The Independent chapel at Bullhouse had been erected by Elkanah Rich of Bullhouse Hall in 1692 in the early years of religious toleration and in 1786 another Independent chapel had been established 2 miles away at Netherfield , where the services were much more evangelical in tone . |
| 29 | THE United Nations said that 20 Brazilian and 50 Russian workers had been kidnapped by opposition soldiers in eastern Angola , where they were working on a Congo River dam project . |
| 30 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |