Example sentences of "what [pron] 've [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's what I 've been called , ’ she agrees : ‘ ambassador for the chimps . ’ |
| 2 | I would think that 30 to 40 per cent of my time is spent on what I 've been trained for . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 4 | It 's what I 've been told to say . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ A few years , but the handlers kept it up — that 's what I 've been told , anyway . |
| 6 | " I know only what I 've been told — that he is on one of the ships , " she said unhappily . |
| 7 | According to what I 've been told , you were his saviour . ’ |
| 8 | Remember what you 've been told |
| 9 | Dave : I 'd always tended to shy away from them , like , because like I say I think it 's the fear of the unknown , what you 've been told . |
| 10 | ‘ Is that what you 've been told to tell me , or is it the truth ? ’ |
| 11 | It depends what you 've been brought up with though dun n it ? |
| 12 | That 's what we 've been asked this morning . |
| 13 | philosophical side of Marxism which is very interesting and there 's a lot of very deep thoughts but what we 've been given your definition , is what I 'd say is the political strategy that Marx said er was necessary to achieve the philosophical ends . |
| 14 | ‘ But that 's what we 've been sent for ; to fetch you back . |
| 15 | And remember too , despite what we 've been brought up to believe , a suntan is not a symbol of health and fitness . |
| 16 | I mean and I think it is the lack of the regulate the er the regulatory control of city actions , I mean one of the points that we 've been recently been advised on is that one of the city institutions which has already been er fined , er from its London office on a technicality is in effect the New York and London offices are deemed to be one entity and I think that er what we 've been advised is that erm I forget the phrase , I wrote it down here somewhere , that what we would be advised to do is to take action against that particular city institution in New York , because that er it is deemed that the London and New York actions are in fact one and that the that er what in fact the er and I think the f yes , there it is , that , that in a way though what we 've been advised is that the basis of that action would be that the organisations London and New York operations are essentially the same operation and bound by a strict know your customer rule as mandated by U S Securities Law , you know . |
| 17 | I mean and I think it is the lack of the regulate the er the regulatory control of city actions , I mean one of the points that we 've been recently been advised on is that one of the city institutions which has already been er fined , er from its London office on a technicality is in effect the New York and London offices are deemed to be one entity and I think that er what we 've been advised is that erm I forget the phrase , I wrote it down here somewhere , that what we would be advised to do is to take action against that particular city institution in New York , because that er it is deemed that the London and New York actions are in fact one and that the that er what in fact the er and I think the f yes , there it is , that , that in a way though what we 've been advised is that the basis of that action would be that the organisations London and New York operations are essentially the same operation and bound by a strict know your customer rule as mandated by U S Securities Law , you know . |
| 18 | At least that 's what we 've been told by the seat-cover suppliers , Courtaulds Textiles , which produces the terribly natty ‘ Renaissance ’ decor for Rover 's new Metro . |
| 19 | I 'm sure they wo n't from what we 've been told . |
| 20 | " We should leave the whale alone ; that 's what we 've been told . " |
| 21 | where we 've got to with our recycling initiative , and then we can look at that grant in the light of what we 've been told by Carol . |
| 22 | Erm , over the last few months , we 've been over our administration , attacked , saying that we do n't care about the rural communities , only the conservative party care about the rural communities , that 's what we 've been told . |
| 23 | Yeah , that 's what we 've been told . |
| 24 | In brief , the period of modernism has come to an end and nothing ( for which read nothing like what we 've been used to ) has replaced it . |
| 25 | What we 've been shown in the Report , and what has , ah , emerged from this discussion , is that for some fifteen years , we engaged in a game of blind man 's buff . |
| 26 | If you delegate it , then the authority need to get these forms in , get to actually doing what they 've been asked to do . |
| 27 | ‘ They will use you to taste what they 've been given , You may die like those men of Pesaro 's . ’ |
| 28 | And we 're , we are , we 're ourselves if you 're in a mess then people out there have got virtually no training other than what they 've been given |
| 29 | And that 's what they 've been cut off for . |
| 30 | The thing is , young officers coming into the force , doing what they 've been taught is their job , the next thing they know they 've got people making complaints against them . |