Example sentences of "i have [adv] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never been surrounded by so many nice things before , not even at the Lewises ' . |
| 2 | I 'd always been fascinated by the people who live on the skid rows of our cities — the ones we regard as the scum of the earth . |
| 3 | If I had n't been trapped by marriage so young … who knows what might have been … ? |
| 4 | But the harsh reality is that if I had n't been picked by England for the tour to India , I would have struggled to make ends meet this winter — I do n't know what I would have done . |
| 5 | As it was , they were all staring fixedly at the entrance to the place , so I had already been inspected by them . |
| 6 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
| 7 | In his last memoirs , written in his second exile , he wrote that before 1953 , " I had been no more than a hereditary sovereign , but now I had truly been elected by the people . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've already been contacted by people as far away from the airport as Holywood and Cultra , as well as many businesses , worried about this possibility , ’ said the City Council Ulster Unionist deputy leader . |
| 9 | I 've already been warned by my dad . ’ |
| 10 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
| 11 | ‘ I was encouraged by the way the idea was received by Sepp Blatter , Fifa 's general secretary , when I met him last month , ’ Kelly said yesterday , ‘ and I 've also been encouraged by his comments since then . ’ |
| 12 | I 've always been fascinated by British history . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've always been fascinated by other cultures , traditions and people , particularly those removed from the Western World . ’ |
| 14 | I 'VE always been fascinated by prehistory , particularly the time of man 's first settlement in the northern Dales . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've always been fascinated by other cultures , traditions and people , particularly those removed from the Western World . ’ |
| 16 | I 've always been fascinated by bag ladies who choose to live on the street- I 've come to the point in my life where I can understand what makes them drop out . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I 've always been fascinated by stamps and used to collect them when I was younger . |
| 18 | I said slowly , ‘ It could be because I 've never been dated by anyone I liked enough . ’ |
| 19 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 20 | I am not , I have just been duped by a clever story-telling girl ’ — Jean Wallace , who runs the Blackpool hotel where runaway schoolgirl Nicola Rogers , 13 , stayed . |
| 21 | I have frequently been bothered by Maazel 's work on record for all sorts of reasons , but here he sounds thoroughly absorbed in the proceedings . |
| 22 | Nevertheless I have since been informed by Richard Buckley that ( if the concept is not entirely meaningless in the circumstances ) the Co-op gives ‘ the best value for money ’ , in terms of materials used in their coffins and the general finish and quality of the handles and name-plate etc . |
| 23 | Thankfully , because of the placement of the cartridge in the machine , I have not been troubled by contamination . |
| 24 | New Zealand Cricket Board chairman McDermott told me : ‘ I have not been approached by England , but if they need help we could provide it . |
| 25 | I have long been fascinated by his work . |
| 26 | There is an objectivity behind the subjectivity of our preferences which entitles you to recommend to me a dish which you do not choose yourself and which I have hitherto been repelled by , but may come to like if I can forget my prejudices and for the first time attend closely to the flavour . |
| 27 | I have sometimes been saddened by encapsulated groups praying along these lines . |
| 28 | In an extraordinary passage towards the end of the book , amplified in discussion at Marxism 90 in a debate specifically convened to discuss Modernism and Postmodernism , Callinicos described his experience of walking around an art gallery : ‘ I have often been struck by the tedium that overcomes one while walking through a gallery of twentieth-century painting arranged in chronological order as one moves from the excitement of the early part of the century to the desperate and all too frequently sterile iconoclasm of recent artists ' ( p. 161 ) . |
| 29 | I have always been fascinated by Magritte 's work ; I have met all his friends , and I worked on his archives for six years . |
| 30 | I have always been fascinated by fashion and fashion journalism . |