Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I 've already been offered a job as buyer for a group of chain stores which have each got a radio department . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 8 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 9 | ‘ I 've also been told a prolonged illness can start it and , of course , some dogs just have a weakness . |
| 10 | I 've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never been called a carpenter before , ’ he mused , ‘ but I suppose there 's something in the description . |
| 12 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 13 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 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 writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 17 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 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 | Can I say that we ourselves have also been drafting a set of criteria , er taking on board the various points that were made on Friday morning . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Thousands of British tourists are in the Florida area , which has now been declared a disaster area . |
| 27 | In the afternoon ‘ individual sweep ’ , the unbelievable happened when John Mathews ( again Stoddards ) playing off 12 , scored a net 63 and tamed this four hour round course which had fast been gaining a ‘ killer ’ reputation . |
| 28 | More than a third of the population — almost 20 million — watched the compilation of clips from earlier shows , which had already been screened a year before . |
| 29 | A phenomenon from the eyewitness testimony literature which had often been considered an extreme effect of attention focusing in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis is known as ‘ weapon focus ’ ( Johnson & Scott , 1976 ; Kramer , Buckhout & Eugenio , 1990 ; E. F. Loftus , 1979 ; E. F. Loftus , G. R. Loftus & Messo , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | Cadfael could not choose but feel some sympathy for one whose dubious but daring enterprise had come full circle , and now threatened him with disgrace and punishment ; all the more as Cadfael himself had just been spared a possibly similar exposure . |