Example sentences of "'ve [been] [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , the pharmacist may need to ask why you 've been prescribed the medicines just to clear up any confusion . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been given the sack , ’ Leith told her shakily , and , over coffee , gave her a blow-by-blow account . |
| 3 | " I 've been given the brush … |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been given the responsibility of securing the capital , if that 's what you mean . ’ |
| 5 | That does n't last for ever , and it 's not easy to psych yourself up to get another job after you 've been given the push . |
| 6 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 7 | You 've been given the battery ? |
| 8 | As far as council support goes , we 've been granted the use of both the station centre itself , so that we can have a retail outlet for furniture , bric-a-brac , books , the kind of thing that might go to landfill , but which people might very well want to use . |
| 9 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been told the players pray five times a day — even if it means interrupting training ! |
| 11 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 12 | er sent us a photograph after the war was over , but since then , since we 've tried to find him , we 've been told the man 's never existed at all . |
| 13 | I 've been told the boats ca n't go over , but when you 're out there , you wonder . |
| 14 | and I live in a place where there 's a lot of old people and they come round to us and they tell us they 've been scared the night after |
| 15 | I 've been offered the opportunity by er Bob in training er in force have taken this on er the tactical unit have taken it on , the chance of er one day erm assessment or appraisal training , at erm probably at Exeter for those of us that do it and erm I think that perhaps with the the way that the diverse way that our staff 's spread out the proper ways of assessing people which I 've I 've never been shown how to do and I do n't think many of us have . |
| 16 | I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding . |