Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 2 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 3 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |
| 5 | could n't I have been left alone |
| 6 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 7 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 8 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 9 | Suppose that in my wife 's absence I had been knocked unconscious by a burglar . |
| 10 | I 've been made redundant . |
| 11 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 12 | It was Charlie 's worst nightmare , he had to go through the public humiliation of denying he had a drink problem and retreated from the court saying , ‘ I 've been found guilty so there 's nothing anyone can do . |
| 13 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
| 14 | I have been declared innocent . |
| 15 | Does n't bother me You , Stu and I have been broken hearted a few months ago and I 've cried over him not coming to see me but not any more . |
| 16 | She says ; I have been made redundant that is why I have all this in my hands . |
| 17 | The prime site out of the above-mentioned locations is , in my experience , London , and the worst the railway stations , but there are far better places than even the City of London and I have been made aware that the airports are an example of sites that fall into this category . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been made privy to the wisdom and knowledge of the Galactic Great Folk , and have returned here to solve all the world 's problems . ’ |
| 19 | I have been given free catalogues , invited to try any guitar I wished — not just the cheapo imports either but vintage stuff too — actually got useful information from people who , without exception , seem to be knowledgeable and often talented players , and generally made to feel welcome . |
| 20 | I said playing the European Championships in Sweden would later take its toll on players and I have been proved correct . ’ |
| 21 | However , once again , I have been proved wrong ! |
| 22 | I have been shown real ‘ good Samaritan ’ help by people in prisons here , and without their help I have found things a whole lot tougher than they were . |
| 23 | But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday . |
| 24 | For example , an investor might sell for 100p per share one week and if he or she has been proven correct in their expectations may buy the share for say 80p each the following week , thus netting a profit per share of 20p before transactions costs . |
| 25 | In addition to the disqualifications that apply to voting , a person may not be a candidate if he or she has been declared bankrupt within the previous five years , has incurred or authorised unlawful expenditure by a local authority above £2,000 , or is a paid employee of the local authority in question or the holder of a politically restricted post in another local authority ( see pages 88 — 9 ) . |
| 26 | She has been granted legal aid to pursue an action in the Court of Session against Lothian Regional Council . |
| 27 | She has been appointed public relations assistant . |
| 28 | BABY kidnapper Caren McSweeney is so stunned by what she did that she has been struck dumb . |
| 29 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 30 | She has been left alone to lead something approaching a normal life now and then . |