Example sentences of "[pers pn] have 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 My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet .
3 Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events .
4 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 .
5 I had been promised a gripping afternoon 's shoot in the Locarno Gents ( where the original play was entirely set ) .
6 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 .
7 When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp .
8 Well I I 've been sent a local
9 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 . ’
10 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 .
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 I 've been offered a temporary job at a private clinic .
13 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 .
14 I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said .
15 I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions .
16 I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it .
17 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 .
18 I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High .
19 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 . ’
20 ‘ Middlesbrough face the exciting prospect of the Premier League and I have been offered a new contract .
21 I really resent the fact that I have been labelled a bad mother because I smoke . ’
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 So if you 'd been given a free choice , you would n't have given your sweets to your brother , would you ?
25 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 .
26 But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got .
27 As soon as she 'd entered the hotel she 'd been handed a white envelope containing a fax message .
28 Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance .
29 When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it .
30 They were beautiful , these Andalucían horses , and she had been given a long lecture on the subject by Ana , who seemed to be an expert .
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