Example sentences of "i have [been] [vb pp] [art] [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 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had been promised a gripping afternoon 's shoot in the Locarno Gents ( where the original play was entirely set ) . |
| 7 | I had been allocated an efficient back-up team from the Civil Service : Jane Benham ( promoted near the end and replaced by Martin Howarth ) , Michael Phipps and Jenny Bacon , all of whom impressed me with their loyalty to me and their diplomatic skills . |
| 8 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 9 | After I had recovered from the anaesthetic the house officer came to tell me that while I had been anaesthetised the senior registrar had in fact examined me internally . |
| 10 | When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp . |
| 11 | Well I I 've been sent a local |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 14 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been offered a temporary job at a private clinic . |
| 18 | I have been made the Cultural Counsellor of the Italian Embassy , for example . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said . |
| 21 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
| 22 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High . |
| 25 | I have been left an agitated message from my niece Marie-Christine telling me that you are camping at Les Hiboux , without chairs or even the bare necessities of life . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Middlesbrough face the exciting prospect of the Premier League and I have been offered a new contract . |
| 27 | I have been told the Chinese have a simple inexpensive instrument to trace extra low frequencies . |
| 28 | I really resent the fact that I have been labelled a bad mother because I smoke . ’ |