Example sentences of "i have [been] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 2 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 3 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 4 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 6 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 7 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 8 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 10 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd been widowed a year when we met . |
| 13 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 14 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 15 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 16 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 17 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 18 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 19 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd been offered a couple of things in the league , and I could have gone to Kuwait or South Africa . |
| 21 | I 'd finished my foundation year earlier that summer and , although I 'd been offered a fulltime place — and grant — to do my Fine Art degree in painting , I blew it out . |
| 22 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 23 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 24 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 25 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 26 | I had been given a week 's leave and so I hurried to Hastings as I felt sure that would be my last leave for some time . |
| 27 | I had been given a week in Sydney before sailing for New Zealand . |
| 28 | I had been granted a State Studentship enabling me to undertake postgraduate study for an M.A. ( The London University M.A. was then a research degree . ) |
| 29 | Then suddenly I had a phone call , which really was out of the blue because if anything I had been expecting a letter . |
| 30 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |