Example sentences of "i have [been] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 2 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 3 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 4 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 5 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 7 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
| 8 | About five weeks ago , I had been invited to a presentation by Garth Enterprises , who were unveiling their plans for a golf course and leisure complex which would also include a hotel and the provision of some expensive houses alongside each fairway . |
| 9 | I had been invited to a banquet by some mad Russian prince . |
| 10 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 11 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 12 | I had been fed on a diet of Enid Blyton and her boarding school series , so I was eager — even excited — to be joining one when I came over to take my ‘ A ’ levels in the late sixties : I was not at all prepared for the harsh realities of English middle-class racism . |
| 13 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 14 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 15 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 16 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 17 | By September , I had been joined by a director of studies and in November the first draft of a Development Plan for Banbury was published . |
| 18 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 19 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 20 | Foolishly , I had not bothered to carry out any of the psychic protective techniques I had been taught as a ‘ probationer healer ’ at a school of esoteric studies . |
| 21 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 22 | I even told them I had been recommended for a commission . |
| 23 | ‘ If I had been married to a successful man , ’ said Lili , ‘ I should never have discovered myself , or my potential . ’ |
| 24 | My impression that I had been hurled into a coarser world was heightened at the beginning of each day , particularly one morning when I was on fire picket duty and had the sadistic pleasure of rattling the dustbin lids and shouting " wakey-wakey ! " along the corridors . |
| 25 | There was no one there ; I had been released on a false alarm . |
| 26 | It was as though I had been caught in a wild torrent of a rampaging river . |
| 27 | Since the end of hostilities he had had a permanent roof over his head , but no other aspect of his life had improved radically , whereas I had been passed from a doting father to a doting husband . |
| 28 | I 've been asked by a market research to do I 've got a tape on it 's for , dictionaries . |
| 29 | I still feel I 've been deprived of a natural birth . |
| 30 | I 've been flung into a filthy cell with a lot of other poor wretches as if I were sack of coals being emptied into a cellar . " |