Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [vb pp] [det] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 2 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 3 | It was difficult , even though she had been told all the problems of Gesner , to continue to hold oneself together in the face of such blatant hatred . |
| 4 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 5 | Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ? |
| 6 | All five hundred coolies from Number Three Village were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks ; silent and apprehensive , they were wondering why they had been roused half an hour earlier and why the burly , intimidating figure of the plantation director , Duclos , was waiting to address the massed roll call beneath the single lightpole in the barrack compound . |
| 7 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 8 | They have been handed all the debt recovery work of Westminster City Council in one of the biggest steps by a local authority in the contracting out process . |
| 9 | The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution . |
| 10 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 11 | But he had been woken half an hour earlier . |