Example sentences of "'ve be [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’
2 they 've been called the white Marxist Public Enemy ; hypocrites ; idealists ; patronising liberal males .
3 ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’
4 Well I I 've been sent a local
5 They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future .
6 Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance .
7 I 've been given a hundred and fifty acres , Seb .
8 When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it .
9 Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’
10 And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving .
11 Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association .
12 If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures .
13 I always know if I 've been given the wrong change
14 But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times .
15 If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number
16 You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high .
17 ‘ I 've been offered a temporary job at a private clinic .
18 But now my personal life has been … simplified , and I 'm back two doors away from where it all started , maybe I 've been offered a new beginning . ’
19 You see , I 've been offered a great deal of money for information which might discredit Alan Dysart : anything scandalous from his past or present .
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