Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only am I forced to share bed and board with a woman for whom I feel nothing but disgust , but for my pains I have been branded a disreputable opportunist by all and sundry . |
| 2 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
| 3 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 4 | I have been given a large quantity of fabric and I would like to know if it would be suitable for painting in oils or acrylic . |
| 5 | I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High . |
| 6 | ‘ Middlesbrough face the exciting prospect of the Premier League and I have been offered a new contract . |
| 7 | I really resent the fact that I have been labelled a bad mother because I smoke . ’ |
| 8 | Sadly , all too often they end up shelling out for mechanical write-offs which have been given a quick paint job and put up for sale at outrageous prices . |
| 9 | By contrast the most depressing problem is the large number of people who have been sold a new tank set-up and a complete stock of fish virtually simultaneously … |
| 10 | Make everyone stand in a circle and explain that you have been granted a special power which places people under your spell . |
| 11 | As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review . |
| 12 | We reluctantly cancelled our holiday and we have been offered a full refund . |
| 13 | We have been allocated a flat and I hope we can live a normal life in spite of the past . |
| 14 | We have been shown a large number of the judges ' orders which are reproduced in Dugdale 's Origines Juridiciales , 3rd ed. ( 1680 ) , ch. 70–72 . |
| 15 | Complacency about recession could destroy the Tories yet : they have been given a sharp warning by the electorate and they disregard it at their peril . |
| 16 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 17 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
| 18 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 19 | The former ought to be more prominently displayed , the article says , so that patients are n't confused about whether they have been given a different type of medicine when collecting subsequent prescriptions . |
| 20 | No doubt they have been promised a good party in return . |