Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I 'd been given the choice , erm you know if they 'd said you know okay you 're next , you going I 'd have said no thanks , send somebody else , but er |
| 2 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 3 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 4 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 5 | I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth . |
| 6 | But if I had been given the chance when I was younger I might easily have made a mistake and gone for good looks and he might have turned out to be Old Nick to live with . |
| 7 | And before meeting him , I wandered about the Left Bank reminding myself that I had been prescribed the city of love to feast my senses . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Boot and I had been allocated the less spectacular task of making and using miniature Barkausen-Kurz tubes as possible receivers . |
| 10 | Two weeks after my course finished and I was back in the ‘ real world ’ on a murder enquiry , I received notification I had been awarded the second scholarship in the force . |
| 11 | Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square . |
| 12 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 13 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 16 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been given the responsibility of securing the capital , if that 's what you mean . ’ |
| 18 | " I 've been given the brush … |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been given the sack , ’ Leith told her shakily , and , over coffee , gave her a blow-by-blow account . |
| 20 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been told the boats ca n't go over , but when you 're out there , you wonder . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been told the players pray five times a day — even if it means interrupting training ! |
| 23 | I 've been told the pra price of the jacket is the amount of the price of a set of wheels for the Lamborghini ! |
| 24 | I 've been offered the opportunity by er Bob in training er in force have taken this on er the tactical unit have taken it on , the chance of er one day erm assessment or appraisal training , at erm probably at Exeter for those of us that do it and erm I think that perhaps with the the way that the diverse way that our staff 's spread out the proper ways of assessing people which I 've I 've never been shown how to do and I do n't think many of us have . |
| 25 | I have been made the Cultural Counsellor of the Italian Embassy , for example . |
| 26 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 27 | ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Murray replied , ‘ The Chairman and the Executive Board are backing this campaign and I have been given the ‘ teeth to police ’ the changeover and to deal with transgressors . ’ |
| 29 | In Bavaria I have been served the paler , lighter type of wheat beer as a refreshingly tart , acidic , Champagne-like summer refresher , or even as a dessert beer , with elderberry fritters ( how about apple pie with cinnamon and cloves ? ) , but there are also darker and stronger versions more suited to autumn and winter . |
| 30 | I have been offered the living of the four merged parishes , and we should live at Lulling Vicarage . ’ |