Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [vb pp] [art] [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 I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined .
5 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 .
6 I had been promised a gripping afternoon 's shoot in the Locarno Gents ( where the original play was entirely set ) .
7 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 .
8 Two weeks after my course finished and I was back in the ‘ real world ’ on a murder enquiry , I received notification I had been awarded the second scholarship in the force .
9 Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend .
10 She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’
11 After I had recovered from the anaesthetic the house officer came to tell me that while I had been anaesthetised the senior registrar had in fact examined me internally .
12 When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp .
13 Well I I 've been sent a local
14 I 've been given a hundred and fifty acres , Seb .
15 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 . ’
16 I always know if I 've been given the wrong change
17 I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’
18 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 .
19 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 . ’
20 I 've been offered a temporary job at a private clinic .
21 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 .
22 I have been made the Cultural Counsellor of the Italian Embassy , for example .
23 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 .
24 I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said .
25 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 .
26 I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions .
27 I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it .
28 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 .
29 In Bavaria I have been served the paler , lighter type of wheat beer as a refreshingly tart , acidic , Champagne-like summer refresher , or even as a dessert beer , with elderberry fritters ( how about apple pie with cinnamon and cloves ? ) , but there are also darker and stronger versions more suited to autumn and winter .
30 I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High .
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