Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 2 | ‘ I should have been marrying a prince . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe I could have been offered a discount if I brought my wife next time . |
| 4 | I 'd have been making a living for myself as well ! ’ |
| 5 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 6 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 7 | So be on your guard , and if you think you may have been sold a fake , report it to your local trading standards department immediately . |
| 8 | She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms . |
| 9 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 10 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 11 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’ |
| 13 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 14 | I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that . |
| 15 | There are a couple of tracks from ‘ The Extremist ’ where it sounds like you could have been using a Les Paul , and that could have been the influence of the new stop tailpiece … |
| 16 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni . |
| 18 | Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday . |
| 19 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 20 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |
| 21 | YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset . |
| 22 | You must be an assessor of the DC to register your decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) . |
| 23 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option but you must be an assessor of the DC to register a decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) . |
| 24 | If you are self-employed you will have been paving a flat-rate Class 2 contribution every week and possibly the earnings-related Class 4 contributions as well . |
| 25 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 26 | On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’ |
| 27 | Much more of that and we 'd have been making a block transfer to the Betty Ford clinic . |
| 28 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 29 | They may have intended to present the information as a factual account , or they may have been investigating a particular area with a view to using the material obtained as a background for a piece of more imaginative writing . |
| 30 | First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 . |