Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [verb] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been made to look an awful fool … so humiliated … |
| 2 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 3 | I have been asked to write an account of the social welfare programme of the Gulbenkian Foundation from 1964 to 1990 . |
| 4 | Q I have been asked to make an outside sign in timber for my bowls club . |
| 5 | Secondly , we have been trying to develop an understanding of locality in human agency ; one responsive not only to social or cultural processes but also to instinctive demands and human interaction . |
| 6 | Where drug actions are known , they have been found to exert an effect on the body 's metabolic processes — that is , our inner chemical workings — inhibiting or stimulating enzyme function or having an effect on their control mechanisms . |
| 7 | He has been selected to undertake an eight-week lecture tour of Australia under the UK-Australian Teacher Fellowship run through Queen 's University . |
| 8 | Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database . |
| 9 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 10 | It had been used to stiffen an envelope posted from the Palace which contained photographs of other members of the Royal Family . |
| 11 | In logic he had been taught to reach an acceptable conclusion by revising the steps which led to it . |
| 12 | He developed an allergy to a powerful , broad-spectrum antibiotic he had been given to treat an attack of bronchitis . |
| 13 | Karen Silk , defending , said : ‘ He was only at work because he had been asked to do an extra shift . |
| 14 | Ten days later he wrote to his sister saying that he had been asked to write an essay about Baldwin , but that he had refused , for he wished neither to lie nor to publish the truth , which he then proceeded to outline : |
| 15 | He was not released until he had been forced to sign an undertaking not to bring any charge against his aggressors . |