Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that . |
| 2 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 3 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | could n't I have been left alone |
| 9 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 10 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 13 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | The previous term I had been placed third — now my position was sixth . |
| 16 | Suppose that in my wife 's absence I had been knocked unconscious by a burglar . |
| 17 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 18 | All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it . |
| 19 | It was the part of Sabbo in Rope ; mind you , I had been offered two leading roles at other reps that could n't give me the vital Equity card — so Sabbo it was . |
| 20 | I had been offered three rehearsals plus some sessions with the singers . |
| 21 | I 've been made redundant . |
| 22 | I 've been sent some stuff by Chris who used to run Harlow group . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been given this beautiful little picture as well , ’ I said , and I smiled up at him . |
| 24 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 25 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 26 | He interrupted her thoughts and showed he was himself still on the same track , for he observed , ‘ I 've been called many things in my time , but never a bully , or , ’ he frowned again , ‘ a megalomaniac out of a horror movie . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 29 | Cherry stopped him and said what you doing she said George this old man he 's said I 'm going to give this to the manager like he said because I 've been brought all these trolleys back . |
| 30 | I 've been told that before by a hypnotherapist . |