Example sentences of "i have [been] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 2 | I am to be dominated by the truth because I have been made a Christian by the operation of the Holy Spirit within . |
| 3 | I have been made a wet-nurse , |
| 4 | I have been made the Cultural Counsellor of the Italian Embassy , for example . |
| 5 | Not only am I forced to share bed and board with a woman for whom I feel nothing but disgust , but for my pains I have been branded a disreputable opportunist by all and sundry . |
| 6 | I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said . |
| 7 | I have been asked a thousand times for the deep cultural explanation of all sorts of profound differences between ‘ us and them ’ in the last few months . |
| 8 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 9 | Finally I have been given a gearbox with the number 26107266 on top , 22 stamped on the right between gearbox and transfer box and Marshall 219467 on the side of the transfer box . |
| 10 | Q I have been given a poinsettia as an early Christmas present which I am determined to keep healthy . |
| 11 | I am disabled with arthritis and I have been given a Singer KE2400 , the green one . |
| 12 | ‘ February 10 — I have been given a dog — a mongrel pup called ‘ Lady ’ , and I have bought a wizard little pony and trap for £70 — a trim grey called ‘ Lucky ’ . |
| 13 | I have arrived , I have been given a number by the Church of Scotland |
| 14 | I have been given a large quantity of fabric and I would like to know if it would be suitable for painting in oils or acrylic . |
| 15 | Members of Schedule I have been given a choice of remaining in that Schedule with an NRA of 60 , or of opting for the new , improved , Schedule II . |
| 16 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
| 17 | Despite writing a pet column for the Daily Telegraph for more than four years , I have been given no information at all about Crufts over the past two years . |
| 18 | However , I have been given no allowance under the ‘ premises ’ budget head and would prefer it if we asked the Trustees to allocate the requisite funds from our investments . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I have been sent a Leeds United 1993–94 squad picture from the Evening Post and this now adorns my office wall , much to the amusement of my colleagues . |
| 24 | I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High . |
| 25 | I have been left an agitated message from my niece Marie-Christine telling me that you are camping at Les Hiboux , without chairs or even the bare necessities of life . ’ |
| 26 | As though to counteract any criticism I have been shown a colour photograph of the prototype from which this livery was created . |
| 27 | ‘ Middlesbrough face the exciting prospect of the Premier League and I have been offered a new contract . |
| 28 | I have been offered the living of the four merged parishes , and we should live at Lulling Vicarage . ’ |
| 29 | I have been told the Chinese have a simple inexpensive instrument to trace extra low frequencies . |
| 30 | Bramber … hardly deserves the name of a town , having not above fifteen or sixteen families in it , and of them not many above asking you an alms as you ride by ; the chiefest house in the town is a tavern , and hear , as I have been told the vintner , or ale-house keeper , rather , for he hardly deserved the name of a vintner , boasted , that upon an election , just then over , he had made £300 , of one pipe of a canary . |