Example sentences of "[pron] 've been [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been asked by a market research to do I 've got a tape on it 's for , dictionaries . |
| 2 | I 've been asked by an inflight magazine , of all things , for 1,000 words on the state of publishing . |
| 3 | I still feel I 've been deprived of a natural birth . |
| 4 | I 've been flung into a filthy cell with a lot of other poor wretches as if I were sack of coals being emptied into a cellar . " |
| 5 | " I 've been invited to a dance . " |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been invited to a party next weekend . |
| 7 | Please recall how I 've been penned in a sanctum on a planet for most of my days . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been treated like a pin-cushion , but it seems to be working so far , ’ he said . |
| 9 | So I 've been left with a load of tapes , batteries . |
| 10 | Car salesman Joe said : ‘ He screamed : ‘ I 've been planted with a bomb by the IRA and I 'm on my way to Downing Street ’ . |
| 11 | There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise . |
| 12 | Gwen will be thinking I 've been put in a dungeon . |
| 13 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 14 | ‘ I feel I 've been taken for a fool . ’ |
| 15 | ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any . |
| 16 | Children who 've been given at a far too tender age , the terrible power of holding a loaded gun and be able to command everything in sight as a result of that , have actually got to get back and rediscover childhood . |
| 17 | I suspect not but erm y'know sometimes it is conceptualised , even by the people who 've been victimised as a sort of two way process as as though they are partly responsible . |
| 18 | You forget everything you 've been taught in a flash . |
| 19 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |
| 20 | If you 've been hurt by a loved one , this stone 's innate joyfulness is said to help heal the pain and the suffering . |
| 21 | Have you ever felt you 've been judged as a woman first and a musician second ? |
| 22 | If you 've been put off a simple d-i-y job which involves mixing concrete or mortar because it 's such a hassle , then the Odjob is for you ! |
| 23 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant feeling to find out you 've been taken for a ride by someone you trusted . ’ |
| 25 | You 're right , Dorigo is definitely one of our most consistent defenders , and it 's not as though we 've been blessed with an abundance of them in recent years ! |
| 26 | And just finally , on Friday we are in to the we 've been invited into a bags competition , you know , that 's after the bags actually means bookmakers afternoon greyhound services , and we race that every Friday as you know erm anyway we 've been invited to erm a national championship involving the other bags tracks that erm involved in this erm and so we stage our two heats on Friday . |
| 27 | And I , we 've been complimented on a number of occasions on that procedure erm by various public bodies . |
| 28 | And then , on the bottom of page sixteen and through on to seventeen is addressing the point that , also within the guideline , we have been asked , we 've been asked as a Committee , to look at the implications of finding up to a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 29 | Talus president , Steve Sarich says ‘ its like we 've been dropped on a different planet and all the Martians love us ’ — surely sales of NeXT boxes are n't that rare , or are they ? |
| 30 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |