Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past year I 've been invited by many of you to meet branch members and to make shop visits all over the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Now I 've been told by other people who 've er erm gone down this route that I 'm proposing to follow with L E As that erm there are two ways round it . |
| 3 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 4 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 5 | Perhaps I 've been infected by those damned journalists . ’ |
| 6 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |
| 7 | Since writing these words I have been assured by Manx Cat specialists that the animal 's troublesome genetic defects have now been largely eliminated by careful selective breeding without losing its uniquely tailless condition . |
| 8 | I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive . |
| 9 | I have been sought by this remarkably beautiful creature who is offering herself to me … |
| 10 | I have been asked by several Society members what it was like to take a ride on the Bishop 's Castle Railway , and the best description that I know of is the account by the late Sir Jasper More in his book , ‘ A TALE OF TWO HOUSES ’ , published by Sir Jasper in 1978 . |
| 11 | Like most therapists , I have been inspired by countless different sources — from metaphysics to Buddhism , from object relations theory to Jung , from Gestalt therapy to psychosynthesis , from mysticism to shamanism . |
| 12 | If , deep within me , I have been persuaded by early upbringing that sex is evil — or if traumatic experience evokes that feeling — sexuality can never carry its true attraction or satisfaction . |
| 13 | Erm , are now in the process of following up to see if who has made er the switch to the new regime , and I have been approached by one project leader who has two programmers who refused to change , and has asked for help . |
| 14 | I have been told by fellow enthusiasts that the original 2.6 litre petrol engine was a very thirsty unit and they suggest that I should install either a diesel unit or a V6 petrol . |
| 15 | I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength . |
| 16 | I have been told by Social Security would let me er excuse me talking to me . |
| 17 | I have been told by well-meaning friends that I have a touch of fever … well , so be it ! |
| 18 | Mr Kilfoyle said : ‘ I have been told by senior Home Office ministers that we have powerful friends on our side in the form of the Government 's latest round of expenditure cuts . |
| 19 | Mr Kilfoyle said : ‘ I have been told by senior Home Office ministers that we have powerful friends on our side in the form of the Government 's latest round of expenditure cuts . |
| 20 | FG : Would you say you 've been influenced by similar painters ? |
| 21 | You have been struck by some particular type of person and have found a plausible set of circumstances in which a person of that type would commit a murder . |
| 22 | ( If you have been stimulated by all this consideration of hypothetical possibilities to find out what relationships actually hold between sex , job type and absenteeism , you might like to read Chadwick-Jones et al. |
| 23 | Brian , you have been troubled by bad health . |
| 24 | ‘ And you have been persuaded by these arguments ? ’ |
| 25 | We 've not given anything away and if we 've been affected by other pressures — England , injuries and the like — then okay . |
| 26 | Not necessarily for us yet , but we 've been asked by Special Branch to take it on board . |
| 27 | Now we 've been approached by Irish Railway with regard , they 've got something like thirty million pounds from the to upgrade line from Dublin to Belfast . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been approached by some welfare organization about group bookings . |
| 29 | Apart from the Bolton Wanderers game , we have been hit by late goals . |
| 30 | The contents of motion one seven eight appear to be sound , conference , we have been tried and we have been tried by some regions in a very limited way with some success . |