Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This awareness of risks and subsequent action to lessen them has been labelled risk compensation ( e.g. O'Neill , 1977 ) . |
| 2 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 3 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 4 | I 'd been drinking scrumpy . |
| 5 | ‘ Up until then I 'd been using gas and air and they were just about to give me some pethidine when all this serious discussion began . |
| 6 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 7 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 8 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 9 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd been working flat out . |
| 11 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 12 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 13 | Because of the distance of my journey I had been given permission to come during the morning , and there were no other visitors . |
| 14 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 15 | A Spanish recruit I had been playing poker against started making faces and gesturing behind the Padre 's back , when suddenly , without taking his eyes off the Frenchman to whom he had been talking , the priest jerked his elbow backwards into the Spaniard 's face , slamming him against an oven . |
| 16 | Bill : I had been having sex , occasionally , with men since I was about fourteen but I had no gay social life at all . |
| 17 | I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement . |
| 18 | I realized with a shock that this was the first time I had been really unhappy since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 19 | Ever since I had been taken prisoner I had found the presence of German helmets fascinating . |
| 20 | They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 21 | The only other twentieth-century example I have found is also from an Irish-born writer : ( 198 ) I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 22 | I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 23 | I 'm a lawyer , and during the past year , I 've been teaching law in Southern California . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been pissing blood all night , Tony . |
| 25 | I feel as if I 've been given knock-out drops . |
| 26 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been given permission to swim in the pool when the family 's not using it . |
| 28 | I do n't know if Craig has told you , but I 've been given authority to extend our maintenance contract with you for a further year , without going to tender . |
| 29 | For days I 've been telling Caliban that I do n't see why D and M and everyone else should be left in the dark about whether I still exist . |
| 30 | I 've been trying mail order . |