Example sentences of "i have [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 2 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 3 | Then it was ‘ If I had n't been dragged to this godforsaken town by that damned no-hoper that I married … ’ and so on . |
| 4 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 5 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 6 | But I had not been raised to be merely decorative . |
| 7 | Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler 's superhuman heroism , I had always been attracted to Germany . |
| 8 | He has been the most inspiring of any artist that I 've ever been exposed to one way or another . |
| 9 | ‘ That was just about the most disgusting exhibition I 've ever been subjected to ! ’ |
| 10 | And of course I 've never been introduced to you properly . ’ |
| 11 | I 've never been used to that . |
| 12 | Presumably the man expected him to add , in the section of the proposal form where you were supposed to talk about your passion for hang-gliding or free-fall parachute jumping , a brief paragraph along the lines of I HAVE ALSO BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST . |
| 13 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 14 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 15 | I have n't been invited to a seminar . |
| 16 | I have n't been referred to a rheumatologist , as I 've been told that I 'm very young and prone to worrying too much about becoming disabled . |
| 17 | I ju I jus I have n't been asked to . |
| 18 | I have not been referred to any case which has directly considered the interplay between planning permission and the law of nuisance . |
| 19 | One Sunday , I went to one of the best planned and happiest birthday parties that I have ever been invited to . |
| 20 | I was beaten and spanked by my father as a child , teenager and young adult , and it was the most distressing and hurtful thing I have ever been subjected to . |
| 21 | I have occasionally been known to be kind to an old lady and I do n't kick every stray dog that comes across my path . ’ |
| 22 | It was inappropriate of me but I have always been attracted to that kind of danger . |
| 23 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
| 24 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |