Example sentences of "i have been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I can see I 've been displaced in Leo 's affections . ’ |
| 3 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 4 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 5 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 6 | I 'd been invited to dinner too , but declined . |
| 7 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 8 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 9 | Before I 'd been salvaged by Martinho and Mrs Goreng they 'd had a Frenchman and a Philadelphian about three years previous who 'd written uncomfortable stuff about starving kids , flattened villages , and summary executions . |
| 10 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 11 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 12 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 13 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 14 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 15 | My eyes watered with pain , with chlorine from the swimming pool and with oil from the rag I 'd been blindfolded with . |
| 16 | I did put the landing light on , though , as I 'd been ambushed in the dark on those stairs before , barely escaping with my life . |
| 17 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , turning sharply on her and utilizing advice I 'd been given by Charlie about the treatment of women : Keep 'em keen , treat 'em mean . |
| 19 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |
| 20 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 21 | There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 23 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
| 24 | I told my supplier — you know , I said I 'd been done over , I had no money , n. stuff . |
| 25 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 26 | I 'd been trained by the P-PRD Division . |
| 27 | ‘ If I 'd been trained in mind-reading rather than riot control , Dexter , I 'd tell you . ’ |
| 28 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 29 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 30 | Oh , it was eighteen months I should imagine , I was doing quite well , I 'd been praised by the head electrician and everything , for further advancement till er that particular incident stopped it . |