Example sentences of "'ve be [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been treated like a pin-cushion , but it seems to be working so far , ’ he said . |
| 2 | And then , on the bottom of page sixteen and through on to seventeen is addressing the point that , also within the guideline , we have been asked , we 've been asked as a Committee , to look at the implications of finding up to a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 3 | I 've been asked by a market research to do I 've got a tape on it 's for , dictionaries . |
| 4 | I 've been asked by an inflight magazine , of all things , for 1,000 words on the state of publishing . |
| 5 | Please recall how I 've been penned in a sanctum on a planet for most of my days . |
| 6 | You 're right , Dorigo is definitely one of our most consistent defenders , and it 's not as though we 've been blessed with an abundance of them in recent years ! |
| 7 | And I , we 've been complimented on a number of occasions on that procedure erm by various public bodies . |
| 8 | You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on . |
| 9 | " I 've been invited to a dance . " |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been invited to a party next weekend . |
| 11 | I suspect not but erm y'know sometimes it is conceptualised , even by the people who 've been victimised as a sort of two way process as as though they are partly responsible . |
| 12 | If someone knows they 've been contaminated by a needle or a knife , for instance , then I think the testing certainly is available . ’ |
| 13 | You forget everything you 've been taught in a flash . |
| 14 | All we would like to do in the lab is make that same compound in a different way , and many of the compounds which are used are the same as those found in nature , the only difference is they 've been prepared in a test tube instead of being prepared in a plant . |
| 15 | It 's when the family come in and they 've been prepared by a doctor whose speciality it is , and they have lists of things that they have witnessed you do , that have embarrassed and humiliated them . |
| 16 | Brighter are so deeply drippy that they make Blueboy look like the English Metallica , Brighter sound like they 've been locked in a bedroom for the past six years and are still trying to come up with that ‘ C86 ’ audition tape . |
| 17 | They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’ |
| 18 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 19 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |
| 20 | Because they 've been pressured into an opinion on one particular aspect of their letter . |
| 21 | There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise . |
| 22 | Car salesman Joe said : ‘ He screamed : ‘ I 've been planted with a bomb by the IRA and I 'm on my way to Downing Street ’ . |
| 23 | So I 've been left with a load of tapes , batteries . |
| 24 | It 'll be alright cos they 've been sealed in a plastic bag |
| 25 | ‘ I feel I 've been taken for a fool . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant feeling to find out you 've been taken for a ride by someone you trusted . ’ |
| 27 | They claim they 've been taken for a ride . |
| 28 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 29 | Have you ever felt you 've been judged as a woman first and a musician second ? |
| 30 | Maybe just some Iranian hotheads getting upset because they think they 've been subjected to a con trick by the arms dealers . |