Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] 've been [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people !
2 This morning John Smith says he is saddened by John 's remarks , he thinks it will give some material to John Major , I 've got news for him , many times I 've been saddened when he 's said nowt to John Major when all the clangers he 's dropped .
3 Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces .
4 I 'm Andrew Panting , the Information Officer for the University , and for this first programme I 've been joined by Ted Nakhle and Lawrence Suss .
5 In essence we 've been hit by something like a double whammy over the S S As .
6 I think , Chairman , that 's still subject to approval by the E A B , erm , which is at the end of the day , the important party that has to be satisfied , so , these are very successful negotiations , but we , we 're still awaiting erm , confirmation they 've been accepted .
7 I want you and the company to find some way to get me out of this mess I 've been landed in .
8 K. I 've been held up at Paddington , John .
9 Tomorrow you will do alone the work you 've been shown today , but under her supervision .
10 My my s young bones they 've been pulled down with carrying these er er all these pails of water .
11 After a lengthy campaign they 've been offered compensation for drop in value of their homes .
12 We have that many er applications I mean I 've just gone through A division and I 've got er a pile of cards literally an inch thick with people a made an initial inquiry or b they 've been furnished with questionnaires and not been returned , so I 'm sending those er right through the divisions
13 What I 'd say to you is , do n't mess up and throw away the opportunity you 've been given , because if you do you 'll only have yourself to blame .
14 ‘ Yes , for the moment I 've been cut off .
15 United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on .
16 Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted .
17 " She 's my pet , my pet , the only pet I 've been allowed to have since I was a tiny kiddie . "
18 ‘ Why should n't I , when for the past four years I 've been allowed to say nothing at all ? ’
19 ‘ I 've been in that sort of situation before , sitting in a dressing- room after losing to a team you 've been expected to beat .
20 But you would n't have done it quite you would have thought about whether you did it , whereas the moment you 've been forced to do it because of the cuts that have been forced upon us by the Poll Tax capping .
21 For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent .
22 ‘ So where are all these bleedin' Germans we 've been told so much about ? ’
23 TWICE in 24 hours we 've been shown letters from Ossie Ardiles , written in the week of his barbaric departure .
24 I have to say , that was one of the more unsettling questions I 've been asked in my life . ’
25 Yes I 'm afraid I 've come in as a a last minute substitute and I feel as if in the eighty ninth minute I 've been given a penalty to take that could win the match or
26 He 's worked on it every day you 've been gone .
27 Recall praise and criticism you 've been given .
28 So you are therefore paralysed and , hopefully , because of the anaesthetic you 've been given in the form of gas , things like er halothane , er enfluorane Come in .
29 erm , the thing about it is is that I mean , one of we we 've at the minute we 've been faced with with some individuals reckoning that they have er rashes forming around the face er in a number of areas and there 's an indication that , and it 's nothing more than that , that it could actually be to do with the laser printers and people sitting near them in the light .
30 We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down .
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