Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 2 | And backs away , with what I believe is called a shiteating grin . |
| 3 | I head south after what I think 's called a hearty breakfast and an even heartier cough . |
| 4 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 5 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
| 6 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 7 | I had been promised a gripping afternoon 's shoot in the Locarno Gents ( where the original play was entirely set ) . |
| 8 | I had been allocated an efficient back-up team from the Civil Service : Jane Benham ( promoted near the end and replaced by Martin Howarth ) , Michael Phipps and Jenny Bacon , all of whom impressed me with their loyalty to me and their diplomatic skills . |
| 9 | When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp . |
| 10 | Well I I 've been sent a local |
| 11 | I 've been given a hundred and fifty acres , Seb . |
| 12 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 13 | You see , I 've been offered a great deal of money for information which might discredit Alan Dysart : anything scandalous from his past or present . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been offered a temporary job at a private clinic . |
| 16 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said . |
| 19 | I have been asked a thousand times for the deep cultural explanation of all sorts of profound differences between ‘ us and them ’ in the last few months . |
| 20 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
| 21 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High . |
| 24 | I have been left an agitated message from my niece Marie-Christine telling me that you are camping at Les Hiboux , without chairs or even the bare necessities of life . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Middlesbrough face the exciting prospect of the Premier League and I have been offered a new contract . |
| 26 | I really resent the fact that I have been labelled a bad mother because I smoke . ’ |
| 27 | The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected . |
| 28 | It gives her a role as a pseudo-ambassador to the region and she has been granted a special travel visa allowing access to the area without the normal restrictions on foreigners . |
| 29 | So if you 'd been given a free choice , you would n't have given your sweets to your brother , would you ? |
| 30 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |