Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] be [vb pp] [adv] " 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 n't been gone more than a minute . |
| 5 | If I had n't been diagnosed quite early , I would n't be here . |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | I meant the people who gather by the sea and the noise and the colours and the smell of frying , but Syl had gone pale and sworn at me , using a word I had never been called before , and saying only a moron would say she did n't like the sea . |
| 8 | I had often been called there to be punished . |
| 9 | But I 've already been done so |
| 10 | ‘ I mean I 'd really like to , but I 've already been shouldered out of the Nativity play . |
| 11 | I 've already been asked why on earth I 'm taking this job in a rugby town . |
| 12 | I mean I 've already been offered well three or four jobs already like . |
| 13 | I 've not been allowed out of the wards , except under escort , that I owe to my father , I know . |
| 14 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 15 | That said I 've also been taken aback by Morrissey 's oddly derogatory remarks about Pakistanis as an 18-year-old and , without dwelling on them , I must say I found such flippant adolescent observations infuriatingly inconsistent with his general world view . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Even here in EC1 , I 've almost been blown up twice by bombs , so you do n't escape reality wherever you go . |
| 18 | Very good , very , very good , no I think as I say the only thing I said to Mr I told him that I 'm very upset because I 've always been treated ever so fair by him I mean they 've really been good to us , you ca n't say they 're not , I mean no other Council I do n't think is as good as Harlow Council , well I say that because I know by my friends who live away they 're not er , they do n't get half the benefits that they get here , I mean we are looked after are n't we ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 've never been treated so badly in my life . |
| 21 | I 've never been made much aware of it . |
| 22 | I 've never been throttled before . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's just that I 've never been deported before . ’ |
| 24 | I 've never been painted before . ’ |
| 25 | In any case , I 've never been called on to deal with anything like this before . |
| 26 | ‘ This is my 11th war but I 've never been shot before . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're talking about something I 've never been told about , and I did n't come here to find out . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've never been carried upstairs to bed . |
| 30 | I 've never been nicked before , I thought , I wonder what it 's like ? |