Example sentences of "i have [adv] been [verb] by " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Thankfully , because of the placement of the cartridge in the machine , I have not been troubled by contamination .
5 New Zealand Cricket Board chairman McDermott told me : ‘ I have not been approached by England , but if they need help we could provide it .
6 I have long been fascinated by his work .
7 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 .
8 I have sometimes been saddened by encapsulated groups praying along these lines .
9 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 ) .
10 I have always been fascinated by Magritte 's work ; I have met all his friends , and I worked on his archives for six years .
11 I have always been fascinated by fashion and fashion journalism .
12 I have always been struck by the role of particular cit.es in certain works which have conveyed a very exact sense of historical location , e.g. Manchester appears in this way in accounts as diverse as those of De Toqueville and Engels , and Spring 's enormously popular novels of the 1930s .
13 In fact , even before the days of plate tectonics , I have always been struck by the paucity of oceanic sediments in the continental areas .
14 I have never been phoned by a Prime Minister before , but I imagine they are not used to being kept waiting .
15 I have never been disturbed by the apparent anomaly that the death sentence remains in our law as the penalty for treason : I see no parallel or analogy between the punishment of crime within a society and the self-defence of a society against its enemies .
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