Example sentences of "i have [been] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 5 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
| 6 | I have been made the Cultural Counsellor of the Italian Embassy , for example . |
| 7 | I have been told the Chinese have a simple inexpensive instrument to trace extra low frequencies . |