Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] been [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes I wish I had n't been born a Catholic , Joe . |
| 2 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 3 | I had never been given the opportunity to explain to him the difficulties in making recommendations about the teaching of language . |
| 4 | The future depended on decisions I could not possibly predict , but at least I had now been offered a shadow of a lifeline , and that , for the moment , would have to do . |
| 5 | And I 've already been offered a job as buyer for a group of chain stores which have each got a radio department . |
| 6 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 8 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just been told the same . |
| 10 | I 'll tell you why cos the B B C there 's a directive just gone out I 've just been informed the B B C for quiz show hosts on the B B C to treat their guests with a little more civility . |
| 11 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 12 | ‘ I 've also been told a prolonged illness can start it and , of course , some dogs just have a weakness . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never been called a carpenter before , ’ he mused , ‘ but I suppose there 's something in the description . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 15 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 16 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 17 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 19 | POSTSCRIPT : As I write I have just been handed a newspaper and I see that at the Court of Appeal in London on April 30th , the following transpired ‘ Trade Unions scored a notable victory in their fight to maintain collective bargaining yesterday when the Court of Appeal said employers had no right to discriminate against workers who refused to sign personal contracts ’ . |
| 20 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 21 | Where is Q P9 ? papers rustling This one I think we should give a little thought , because this is the one I think where oh yes this is going to get complicated because I have now been given a quiff and a few suggestion forms about it |
| 22 | Q I have recently been given a fish tank which is 24″ × 12″ × 18″ . |
| 23 | I have recently been given an electric propagator and am keen to grow lots of plants from seed . |
| 24 | This is no ordinary cash-in either , kids — Michael himself has actually been consulted every step of the way in the development of the Moonwalker game . |
| 25 | There is usually a clearly seen demarcation between upper and lower sausage-shaped groups of glands , which has aptly been named the ‘ sign of the groove ’ . |
| 26 | The hypothesis is that we have now reached the end of the particular combination known as Fordism and are embarking on an as yet embryonic and relatively unknown period , but one which has already been given a name — neo-Fordism . |
| 27 | Thousands of British tourists are in the Florida area , which has now been declared a disaster area . |
| 28 | One of the major controversies is concerned with the relation between high water level and the abrupt break of slope at the inshore margin of the beach , a feature which has sometimes been called the nip . |
| 29 | Unmet need was said to exist where there was a care option which had not been given a recent trial and had not been recently refused by the client . |
| 30 | It was easy enough to find Victorian and Edwardian houses which had not been changed a jot , but with houses of earlier periods it became increasingly difficult . |