Example sentences of "[pron] have be [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 2 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 4 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 5 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 6 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd been widowed a year when we met . |
| 8 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been offered a couple of things in the league , and I could have gone to Kuwait or South Africa . |
| 10 | I 'd finished my foundation year earlier that summer and , although I 'd been offered a fulltime place — and grant — to do my Fine Art degree in painting , I blew it out . |
| 11 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 12 | I had been given a week 's leave and so I hurried to Hastings as I felt sure that would be my last leave for some time . |
| 13 | I had been given a week in Sydney before sailing for New Zealand . |
| 14 | I had been granted a State Studentship enabling me to undertake postgraduate study for an M.A. ( The London University M.A. was then a research degree . ) |
| 15 | Early on a Sunday morning I walked up Plateros and then through the narrow streets to where I had been told a bus , colectivo — some form of transport — would leave . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been given a transfer . |
| 17 | Yes I 'm afraid I 've come in as a a last minute substitute and I feel as if in the eighty ninth minute I 've been given a penalty to take that could win the match or |
| 18 | I 've been given a lot of support from fans , especially letters written to me nearer the time . |
| 19 | Cos I 've been asked a question before |
| 20 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |
| 21 | I 've been lent a DI box , but I 'm not sure how best to hook it up . |
| 22 | Yeah , well as I say , sometimes I go along while in between but I I think it 's more or less when when I 've been aggravated a bit , you know what I mean ? |
| 23 | I 've been called a dragon in my time , Shelley , but in my case I 've knowingly been an old crosspatch sometimes . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been left a house in France , end of subject , except that it is my intention — ’ |
| 25 | you know , if they want the first day , then there gon na have to do another lot so what 's the point of sort of yourself out with fucking , I was n't really sure at the time that I wanted to go to so , you know , I , I said no I needed this job , but probably a bad I 've been offered a couple of month one 's as well , one month and two month 's , but I mean the trouble is |
| 26 | I 've been offered a job in general practice . |
| 27 | I 've been offered a job Gill |
| 28 | I 've been offered a lot of commissions but I have n't done any for two years . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been offered a sum that would buy my house twice over to pose for topless pictures like that and I 've turned every offer down flat . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , in fact I 've got a , I 've been allocated a place , but it 's not ready for me yet . |