Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb base] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have sometimes taken on a role where I have been injured , a plague victim , and used the role to become Devil 's Advocate , suggesting that one of the more aggressive boys in a class " Finish me off . " |
| 2 | I 've had before where I have been told waited and helped people finish their |
| 3 | I like to show people I 've got guts , although I 've been scared at times . ’ |
| 4 | Keifer Sutherland , son of Donald , managed to steer clear of drugs , ‘ although I have been known to let off steam occasionally , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 6 | Unless there are more anti-Loraine Crescent closure petitions than I have been led to believe , the one I think Mr Howe refers to was rendered dubious . |
| 7 | Unless there are more anti-Loraine Crescent closure petitions than I have been led to believe , the one I think Mr Howe refers to was rendered dubious . |
| 8 | That was the point , I thought , but perhaps machines are more versatile than I have been informed they are . |
| 9 | I 'm told Madeira is an experience not to be missed , so I 've been coerced . ’ |
| 10 | Car oil , so I 've been told , is their tipple . |
| 11 | ‘ So I 've been told often and oft , ’ and he gave a sigh . |
| 12 | ‘ And compliments , so I 've been told , oil the wheels of life . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ So I 've been told . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ So I 've been told . |
| 15 | ‘ I did think , ’ David began , as they moved away , ‘ there 's a nice little restaurant just opened in Tewkesbury , not far from the Abbey — cosmopolitan sort of menu , so I 've been told . |
| 16 | That 's why I asked for him rather than his partner who is , so I 've been told , both charming and susceptible . ’ |
| 17 | Conditions in workhouses throughout the country were supposed to have been bad , but here , so I have been informed they were even worse . |
| 18 | I 've got a sale to go to at nine , and you know how difficult it is for me to get back to sleep once I 've been woken . ’ |
| 19 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 20 | I feel as if I 've been given knock-out drops . |
| 21 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 22 | And , I suppose , if I 've been dethroned I must at some stage have been enthroned ! |
| 23 | I feel as if I 've been whisked away to another world , ’ she breathed , her face radiant . |
| 24 | The party 's best-known candidate , Alessandra Mussolini , the Duce 's grand-daughter , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm very happy for the MSI , even if I still do n't know if I 've been elected ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
| 26 | I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said . |
| 27 | I feel as if I have been hoodwinked . |
| 28 | I ca n't pay you until I 've been paid . |
| 29 | And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not a lout and a thug like I 've been painted . |