Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them has ever been cooped up in kennels . ’ |
| 2 | Maybe someone has already been lined up , though the post has been advertised . |
| 3 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 4 | I had also been brought up on the story of the man who boasted that his ancestor had lost his leg at Waterloo , to which the response was ‘ Which platform ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I mean I 'd really like to , but I 've already been shouldered out of the Nativity play . |
| 6 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 7 | Well , er very good but erm last year I was very disappointed I did n't get invite , an invite to the old time musical which is most unusual , it 's the first time I 've ever been missed out , but I do n't know how it happened , our warden did n't have any of us invited , so I do n't know how it happened |
| 8 | Even here in EC1 , I 've almost been blown up twice by bombs , so you do n't escape reality wherever you go . |
| 9 | I 've always been brought up to be domesticated — to do the housework and dust and wash up and cook — so it 's a natural instinct really . |
| 10 | In any case , I 've never been called on to deal with anything like this before . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're talking about something I 've never been told about , and I did n't come here to find out . |
| 12 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 13 | I 've never been shaved down there . |
| 14 | In 1985 , he claimed defensively , ‘ There 's black and white proof I 'm not the killer I 'm supposed to be , I 've only been sent off twice . ’ |
| 15 | Lord Mayor , I 've only been brought up under the National Health Service for thirty two years and I feel sorry for that poor doctor . |
| 16 | Piper explained : ‘ I have already been written off by a lot of people and a lot of critics and I can understand Benn being favourite . |
| 17 | He continued : ‘ I have already been slated over and over again by local climbers for putting bolts into the rock face at Land 's End , but this is the way forward ; of that I have no doubt . |
| 18 | A thing to be added , which has unintentionally been left out . |
| 19 | Boeing components are alleged to have been sold to the Iranians by the London-based Aer Lingus controlled spares company Alpex , which has since been wound up . |
| 20 | The aid agencies working there decided not to publicise the report , which has since been backed up by an internal report by Robert Ash , a senior UNHCR official . |
| 21 | Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans . |
| 22 | You may like to know that we are represented on the Wales Access Forum , which has just been set up under the auspices of the Countryside Council for Wales . |
| 23 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 24 | In particular , perhaps , there will be the question of agreeing the partners ' profit shares , the problem of which has already been touched on in Chapter 4 . |
| 25 | 'shin " d " encodes past activity , but only in relation to the utterance 's internal system of time referencing which has already been set up and controlled by the deictic references of earlier elements . |
| 26 | This example illustrates that notes can be repeated in a melody , and that one can re-use a previous note which has already been passed over . |
| 27 | which has now been filled in |
| 28 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 29 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 30 | Some sellers of British Gas shares , prior to delivery of allotment letters , who had responded to press advertisements of the share-dealer Walter L Jacob & Co Ltd which has now been wound up , were told to send Jacob a cheque for half the proceeds . |