Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have been [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 2 | Maybe I could have been offered a discount if I brought my wife next time . |
| 3 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 4 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 5 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 6 | So be on your guard , and if you think you may have been sold a fake , report it to your local trading standards department immediately . |
| 7 | She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms . |
| 8 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 9 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’ |
| 11 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 12 | ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni . |
| 13 | Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday . |
| 14 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |
| 15 | YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset . |
| 16 | You must be an assessor of the DC to register your decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) . |
| 17 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option but you must be an assessor of the DC to register a decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) . |
| 18 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 19 | On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’ |
| 20 | According to Dore ( 1979 ) the later that capitalist development occurs the less likely there will have been established a prior system of free wage labour in a capitalist agricultural sector . |
| 21 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 22 | First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 . |
| 23 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 24 | People with head injuries who ca n't get the long-term treatment they need have been promised a better deal . |
| 25 | Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory . |
| 26 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 27 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 28 | Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman . |
| 29 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 30 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |