Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he 'd been offered a record contract which the Fish had turned down , saying they were n't good enough yet . |
| 2 | Perhaps he has been promoted a little too rapidly and a little too high . |
| 3 | Finally I have been given a gearbox with the number 26107266 on top , 22 stamped on the right between gearbox and transfer box and Marshall 219467 on the side of the transfer box . |
| 4 | Whereas yesterday he had been given a glimpse of Vic 's charm , now he felt disturbed by this peculiar character . |
| 5 | The unwary were apt to buy a ‘ pig in a poke ’ ( sack ) and find out later they 'd been sold a muted pup . |
| 6 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 7 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 8 | Now he 's been fined a record £7,800 for telling the truth — £5,000 and £1,000 costs yesterday , in addition to an earlier £1,800 by Northants . |
| 9 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
| 10 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 11 | But now my personal life has been … simplified , and I 'm back two doors away from where it all started , maybe I 've been offered a new beginning . ’ |
| 12 | And then I said , then she 'd been bought a a hundred pound of leg waxing machine . |
| 13 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job . |
| 16 | Yet he had been offered a foreman 's job and refused it . |
| 17 | It was extended in 1968 ( since when it has been termed a ‘ blight notice ’ ) and further extended in 1973 . |
| 18 | At one time Prime considered defecting to Russia where he had been promised a KGB colonel 's pension for life . |
| 19 | A bandage round his head , a cup of tea in his blunt hands , he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe , and Nathan could understand exactly why he 'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he 'd been given a room on the first floor , one of the large ones , for nothing . |