Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [been] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well I I 've been sent a local
2 Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’
3 You see , I 've been offered a great deal of money for information which might discredit Alan Dysart : anything scandalous from his past or present .
4 But now my personal life has been … simplified , and I 'm back two doors away from where it all started , maybe I 've been offered a new beginning . ’
5 I 've been offered a temporary job at a private clinic .
6 Not only am I forced to share bed and board with a woman for whom I feel nothing but disgust , but for my pains I have been branded a disreputable opportunist by all and sundry .
7 I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions .
8 I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it .
9 I have been given a large quantity of fabric and I would like to know if it would be suitable for painting in oils or acrylic .
10 I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High .
11 ‘ Middlesbrough face the exciting prospect of the Premier League and I have been offered a new contract .
12 I really resent the fact that I have been labelled a bad mother because I smoke . ’
13 Sadly , all too often they end up shelling out for mechanical write-offs which have been given a quick paint job and put up for sale at outrageous prices .
14 Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance .
15 When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it .
16 By contrast the most depressing problem is the large number of people who have been sold a new tank set-up and a complete stock of fish virtually simultaneously …
17 Make everyone stand in a circle and explain that you have been granted a special power which places people under your spell .
18 As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review .
19 We reluctantly cancelled our holiday and we have been offered a full refund .
20 We have been allocated a flat and I hope we can live a normal life in spite of the past .
21 We have been shown a large number of the judges ' orders which are reproduced in Dugdale 's Origines Juridiciales , 3rd ed. ( 1680 ) , ch. 70–72 .
22 They 've been gone a good while . ’
23 Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association .
24 And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving .
25 Complacency about recession could destroy the Tories yet : they have been given a sharp warning by the electorate and they disregard it at their peril .
26 Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life .
27 In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant .
28 Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past .
29 The former ought to be more prominently displayed , the article says , so that patients are n't confused about whether they have been given a different type of medicine when collecting subsequent prescriptions .
30 No doubt they have been promised a good party in return .
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