Example sentences of "i [verb] [been] [vb pp] a [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 | 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 . |
5 | I had been promised a gripping afternoon 's shoot in the Locarno Gents ( where the original play was entirely set ) . |
6 | Well I I 've been sent a local |
7 | I 've been given a hundred and fifty acres , Seb . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . ’ |
11 | ‘ I 've been offered a temporary job at a private clinic . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
16 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High . |
19 | ‘ Middlesbrough face the exciting prospect of the Premier League and I have been offered a new contract . |
20 | I really resent the fact that I have been labelled a bad mother because I smoke . ’ |