Example sentences of "i have been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 2 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 3 | When I was in Rapeman , I ca n't say it really surprised me because I had been exposed to English people before , but I did n't think that people were being serious initially . |
| 4 | Fifteen years were to pass before I had a book published by Faber 's , but by then I had been launched by other publishing houses . |
| 5 | I had been enthralled by true stories of savage tribes , frontier raids and lion hunts . |
| 6 | Now I 've been told by other people who 've er erm gone down this route that I 'm proposing to follow with L E As that erm there are two ways round it . |
| 7 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 8 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 9 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been primed with stolen cash from a post-office raid set up to finance your old man 's own version of early day closing at the nick . |
| 11 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 12 | Since writing these words I have been assured by Manx Cat specialists that the animal 's troublesome genetic defects have now been largely eliminated by careful selective breeding without losing its uniquely tailless condition . |
| 13 | I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive . |
| 14 | I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will . |
| 15 | Like most therapists , I have been inspired by countless different sources — from metaphysics to Buddhism , from object relations theory to Jung , from Gestalt therapy to psychosynthesis , from mysticism to shamanism . |
| 16 | If , deep within me , I have been persuaded by early upbringing that sex is evil — or if traumatic experience evokes that feeling — sexuality can never carry its true attraction or satisfaction . |
| 17 | Upper Halling has its own team and in its early days this team played in the field opposite the Robin Hood , and I have been told of near carnivals on Sunday afternoons . |
| 18 | I have been told by fellow enthusiasts that the original 2.6 litre petrol engine was a very thirsty unit and they suggest that I should install either a diesel unit or a V6 petrol . |
| 19 | I have been told by Social Security would let me er excuse me talking to me . |
| 20 | I have been told by well-meaning friends that I have a touch of fever … well , so be it ! |
| 21 | Mr Kilfoyle said : ‘ I have been told by senior Home Office ministers that we have powerful friends on our side in the form of the Government 's latest round of expenditure cuts . |
| 22 | Mr Kilfoyle said : ‘ I have been told by senior Home Office ministers that we have powerful friends on our side in the form of the Government 's latest round of expenditure cuts . |
| 23 | As it is , I have been forced into positive action , into vitality and life . ’ |
| 24 | My family and I have been subjected to unprovoked stone-throwing and spitting by gangs of youths who I presume are from right wing groups . |
| 25 | Since this news broke , I have been subjected to numerous snide remarks concerning my ability to spot a footballer when I see one . |