Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 2 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 3 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 4 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 5 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 6 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 7 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 10 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 11 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 12 | He throws me out anyway , a bad influence , a bad example , coming from the kind of home I did , I should know better , I 'd been given every chance . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 15 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 16 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 17 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 18 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd been widowed a year when we met . |
| 21 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 22 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 27 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 28 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 29 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |