Example sentences of "[pron] have be [vb pp] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after years of the DHSS , it really was the first time I 'd been spoken to like a human being . |
| 2 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 3 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
| 4 | I 've been made to look an awful fool … so humiliated … |
| 5 | It 's because of that interest , and those letters , that I 've been sent to do a special report . ’ |
| 6 | Whenever I 've been asked to take a sponsored parachute jump I 've declined , giving the excuse ‘ fear of flying ’ . |
| 7 | I 've been known to book a court and play tennis with Caroline ( who has the habit of beating me ) . |
| 8 | I 've been forced to pay a high enough price for the goods , for heaven 's sake . |
| 9 | I know that something new has happened , that I 've been forced to make a connection I 've never made before . |
| 10 | ‘ I — I 've been chosen to inherit a fortune , ’ I whispered . |
| 11 | I find it very difficult to dwell on these serious — even gloomy — thoughts when the sun is shining , the winds light and I have been asked to take a party of visitors out for a boat trip . |
| 12 | I have been asked to do a couple of days work in Aberdeen sometime next month and also some part time development/fund-raising work for a charity ( The Association for the Preservation of Rural Scotland ) . |
| 13 | ‘ You know that I have been asked to give a course of sermons at St Basil 's ? |
| 14 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have received a summary of the report but I have been asked to obtain a copy of the complete report . |
| 15 | I have been asked to write an account of the social welfare programme of the Gulbenkian Foundation from 1964 to 1990 . |
| 16 | Q I have been asked to make an outside sign in timber for my bowls club . |
| 17 | I have been asked to send a copy of this letter to the local police station dealing with the accident . |
| 18 | When she heard this Vasilissa was even more frightened , but she said , " Oh , my sister , let me in I beg you , for I have been sent to fetch a little fire . " |
| 19 | I HAVE been commissioned to write a history of overseas players in English cricket . |
| 20 | I have been released to find a new sense of freedom in prayer and worship . ’ |
| 21 | I will be visiting Community and Recreational Arts in Barnet in March , where I will have the pleasure of attending the official opening of the Tedder lounge , which has been extended to include a wheelchair accessible art room . |
| 22 | Most people , if asked to smooth the data by eye , would probably produce a curve similar to those in figures 9.3 or 9.4 , each of which has been derived using a well-defined arithmetic procedure described later in the chapter . |
| 23 | The settlement of first generation Asian immigrants in this country has been characterized by social and spatial segregation from the indigenous population , which has been found to reflect a combination of social , economic and cultural factors . |
| 24 | A natural material that has this type of structure is coral , which has been used to produce a range of implant ceramics . |
| 25 | Lawyers and sections of the media have been concerned that the plastic sheet prevents electronic document analysis ( Esda ) , which has been used to correct a number of miscarriages of justice — including wrongful convictions of the Birmingham Six , Guildford Four and Tottenham Three . |
| 26 | The eight people arrested and put on trial were also accused of membership of the ‘ Executive Committee ’ , which had been created to deliver a petition to Portuguese parliamentarians scheduled to visit East Timor in October 1991 . |
| 27 | We banked to the left , following the precisely plotted curve of a bed of flowers , which had been arranged to form a living mosaic of the municipal crest . |
| 28 | Talks between the ruling AP and the opposition MNR , CONDEPA and MBL , which had been convoked to resolve a political crisis which had arisen in November over the political role played by the Supreme court , many of whose members were linked with the MNR [ see pp. 37851-52 ] , broke down in March 1991 . |
| 29 | He himself had been unsettled to find a note and a feather placed in his room , but this was a thousand times worse . |
| 30 | Many are bronze mirrors with a normal tin content of approximately 10 per cent , which have been tinned to produce a silvery reflecting surface . |