Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 2 | Rain said : ‘ You were told by Edouard that I had been tricked into going to the museum . |
| 3 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 4 | ‘ After I had been criticised for employing ‘ Lady Merchiston ’ and ‘ your ladyship ’ , I finally found that compromise which she accepted . |
| 5 | A military judge came to see me and read out the charges — I had been accused of stealing a car . |
| 6 | ‘ Ever since I was a little boy , I 've been fascinated by acting in the cinema . |
| 7 | In what remains one of the most touching and compassionate statements of his flamboyant career , The Doc told waiting newsmen ‘ I 've been punished for falling in love . |
| 8 | That 's why I 've been delayed in getting over to see you . |
| 9 | Certainly I I 've been aware for a while now that there have been problems at Kingslane general in terms of of break ins erm not just specifically with the launderette but with also the community room er there and certainly I I 've been engaged in making one or two suggestions about how security measures could be improved . |
| 10 | I 've been retired from playing for five years , although this season I messed about a bit just to keep in touch with what was going on , and I really do think that someone else should have the honour of captaining the team . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been accused of wanting to send people 60 miles down the road to hospitals they do n't want to go to … of doctors not having enough money to pay for drugs … of going to close down vital wards … |
| 12 | I have been influenced in thinking about the comparative element in these chapters by Dickens et al. |
| 13 | Even now , the only substantial reason I have been given for stopping the work , is that BW themselves propose to upgrade the towpath along the whole length . |
| 14 | I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative . |
| 15 | I have been criticised for doing a job that is irrelevant in a society in which so many are struggling . |
| 16 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 17 | Along with a dining room full of others , I have been accused of stealing an extra jam sponge in Yorkshire ( ‘ There 's bin someone 'ere 'as 'ad more'n one pudding , and I sha n't rest till I find out 'oo … ’ ) . |
| 18 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 19 | Pat shares some of the problems she has solved and tips she has been given before answering the questions raised at this month 's meeting . |
| 20 | Joseph Chamberlain , not Sidney Webb , was the man of her dreams ; but though she has been credited with overcoming romantic desire for the sake of her own independence , it is clear that she desperately wanted him to propose , with her eyes set on his becoming prime minister . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sorry you 've been lumbered with running me back , ’ Ashley said crisply , as they turned on to the road . |
| 22 | Shaken but still thinking straight , Lynsey remembered the advice she had been given on defusing difficult situations . |
| 23 | Round him , she was talkative in order to provoke him into replying , and the attempt made her a habitual confessor , though she would have been amazed if she had been charged with talking about herself all the time . |
| 24 | ‘ She had been pestered by threatening phone calls recently and harassed . ’ |
| 25 | Most of her life , it seemed to her , she had been hampered by having to look after Sally and she had no intention of having her Saturday evening 's fun spoiled . |
| 26 | In Rourke v Barton [ 1982 ] CLY 793 the plaintiff 's general damages took into account the fact that she had been prevented from nursing her terminally ill husband . |
| 27 | Penelope , however , it had to be acknowledged , had made no attempt to rise above the blow she had been dealt by finding a dazzling girl of her own age favoured over herself in her uncle 's will . |
| 28 | She had been reduced to using ploys straight out of spy stories . |
| 29 | As soon as Honor was old enough she had been dragooned into helping with the housework , preparing meals if cook were ill , as well as acting as her mother 's companion . |
| 30 | From the beginning she had been angered at having to take the girl in , for Lavender had been lovely , and Liti detested her for it . |