Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 2 | ‘ I am dependent on people with whom I have been associated in the past inviting me and I must say they could not have been more gracious . ’ |
| 3 | I find it strange that people with whom I have been associated should now accept that independent bankers control so much of our destiny . |
| 4 | I even told them I had been recommended for a commission . |
| 5 | Well I I 've been sent a local |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Right some of our speakers are retires I I 've been retired quite a number of years , as you 'll have noticed I give the talk on income tax and I 'm a retired tax inspector . |
| 8 | As I said I I had been told that er he was associated with and they had been planning ar armed robberies in the past . |
| 9 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 10 | One evening we filmed at six o'clock a commercial which I 'd been handed in script form at five o'clock the same evening . |
| 11 | Michael Herr says , ‘ I had an absolute raving love affair with the war , but my other love affair was with America , not with Indo-China ; it was with American energy , which I 've been criticised for , but that 's how it happened ’ . |
| 12 | It 's the first occasion in fact on which I 've been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application . |
| 13 | Well the position which I 've been told by my company directors is that we are still trading , er a er an administration order has been taken out and we are continually , continuing to trade and er that er rules . |
| 14 | The wedding to which I had been invited was taking place in a village church ten miles the other side of Downshurst , a market town eleven miles from my aunt 's cottage . |
| 15 | I put on my shoes and jacket which I had been asked to take off and told the doctor I would visit her another time . |
| 16 | Much interest was expressed from personnel across the system in the work in which I had been involved over the last eleven years with Queensland Catholic Education . |
| 17 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 18 | I am referring to Dr. Bach Flower Remedies , a mixed distillation of which I had been prescribed and acquired at Bristol . |
| 19 | After it had run along the shores of the Adriatic on its way to Monfalcone , I had my last view of the Kras , the country in which I had been born , rising like a great wall above the plains of Friuli and then gradually disappearing altogether . |
| 20 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 21 | I gave her a deep old-fashioned bow , a legacy of the East European courtesies in which I had been raised . |
| 22 | ‘ Life has changed , Shama , ’ I said looking at the Japanese thermos on the chair by my bed and the round box of Danish biscuits which I had been given ‘ in case you are hungry in the night ’ . |
| 23 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 24 | I saw only that , in this magical new view of the world to which I had been introduced , scepticism and gullibility must be harnessed in tandem if nothing was to be missed . |
| 25 | Jean-Claude had a different way of looking at moral issues from the one in which I had been brought up , and judged correct . |
| 26 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 27 | It was not a matter with which I had been confronted . |
| 28 | Upon receiving a degree which would allow me to undertake research , I turned down a place which I had been offered to study theology , and went to Oxford . |
| 29 | I live in Scarborough , and some time ago enquired about leisure art classes ; this led to me taking an interview for a full-time art and design course , which I have been accepted for . |
| 30 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |