Example sentences of "[noun] and [pers pn] 've [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the only thing is what does happen occasionally is somebody comes from the D S S offices and they 've been told , I need a B one . |
| 2 | Fashanu said : ‘ It 's a trapped sciatic nerve and I 've been told to rest for about three weeks . |
| 3 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 4 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 5 | Things like false alarm calls and so on , have been through the courts and we 've been stopped from doing that . |
| 6 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 7 | You come to trial and you 've been accused of something , what were they accusing him of ? |
| 8 | I have good teeth and they 've been known to blind at five yards in strong sunlight . |
| 9 | Now how many of you here have been in situations where you 've been behind a pedal cyclist and you 've been tempted , I 'll not say you 've done it , but you 've been tempted to go past ? |
| 10 | If you believe them , Simon 's been sighted eight hundred different places and you 've been caught fifty times … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've worked for fourteen years in this business and I 've been given to understand that I should get a partnership one day . ’ |
| 12 | Erm for one world week on the twenty fourth of October and we 've been asked to do a stall there . |
| 13 | Erm , you know , if they 're sitting there in water and they 've been peeled and they 're ready to cook , they wo n't be cooked until they 're needed to be cooked , you know . |
| 14 | When you 're on blankets and you 've been brought up on blankets er you 're used to blankets |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | You 've protested to the nation and you 've been noted . |
| 17 | Well the parrot he sort of came in the Boar War he did he sort of flitted on my shoulder and I 've been lumbered with him ever since and nobody seems to want him . |
| 18 | erm a sister who sends out wonderful letters and they 've been published , and my husband he calls , you know , whenever he can . |
| 19 | Er , certainly in the last well , all the time I 've been involved in developing these schemes , twenty seven twenty eight years now , we 've had a gradual increase over the years of involvement in the public , with the public and we 've been criticized where we have n't done so . |
| 20 | Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 . |