Example sentences of "[verb] i [verb] [been] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 2 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 3 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 4 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 5 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 6 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 7 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 8 | ‘ I can see I 've been displaced in Leo 's affections . ’ |
| 9 | I have a ringing in my ears like I 've been smacked around the head . |
| 10 | I hold the view very strongly — and I know I have been criticised for it — that when a government has not got great experience , is a minority government , it is essential if you can possibly support it that it should be able to speak with a strong voice to the countries of the world . |
| 11 | I know I have been reduced to a babble of disconnected comments , which do n't really say much . |
| 12 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |
| 13 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 14 | I still feel I 've been deprived of a natural birth . |
| 15 | Having dared , with one or two others , to open the door , I feel I 've been trampled in the rush and I 'm now standing up and waving a little flag saying , ‘ No , no , this is where we should be . ' |
| 16 | ‘ I feel I 've been taken for a fool . ’ |
| 17 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 18 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 19 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 20 | From that moment I knew I had been hit by something . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 22 | She was n't too pleased , as she thought I had been coarsened by the whole experience , which was true . |
| 23 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 24 | ‘ He said I had been pardoned by the president . ’ |
| 25 | I told my supplier — you know , I said I 'd been done over , I had no money , n. stuff . |
| 26 | Gwen will be thinking I 've been put in a dungeon . |
| 27 | And , faith , since we married I 've been pressed into service as one more brother to him , a father , too , since his own father died when the boy was barely thirteen . |
| 28 | Just came in to say I 've been summoned to the presence . |
| 29 | And so I 've tried to open it up er rather wider and w what I 've I 've I 've been put in touch with a a thing called the independent schools , design and technology association , which covers design and technology studies in all independent schools . |
| 30 | There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor . |