Example sentences of "[vb base] been [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been asked loads of questions . |
| 2 | So you 've been appointed Chairman ! |
| 3 | If you 've been prescribed suppositories and you 're not sure how to use them or are too embarrassed to ask , the pharmacist will have explanatory leaflets . |
| 4 | And it says a , i , i it 's stating things here er if you 've been wanted operation a long time the N S H er N S H that is it , yes . |
| 5 | AT best , they 've been called cranks . |
| 6 | ‘ Ever since I came here , I 've been called Isabelle 's daughter virtually as a term of abuse . ’ |
| 7 | The only other twentieth-century example I have found is also from an Irish-born writer : ( 198 ) I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 8 | I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 9 | I asked her what made people do things like that , and she told me that 99 per cent of men who 've been abused turn into abusers . |
| 10 | I 've mentioned briefly there is um er , let me see , it 's , women who 've been abused show more need for power than a comparable group of unabused women . |
| 11 | We 've been given Lego and we 're learning to put things together in new ways . |
| 12 | They erm they tend to perhaps have a different attitude if they 've been given company shares , because they 're handled shares er fairly regularly , and that 's a different matter , erm I mean erm are there many people here who have privatized issues ? |
| 13 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 14 | I feel as if I 've been given knock-out drops . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been given permission to swim in the pool when the family 's not using it . |
| 16 | If you 're wearing , if you 're wearing headphones right you do n't stop everybody 's bound to work out and everyone lets you wear them , everyone 's bound to work out you 've been given permission to wear them . |
| 17 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |
| 18 | I do n't know if Craig has told you , but I 've been given authority to extend our maintenance contract with you for a further year , without going to tender . |
| 19 | I 've been stopped loads of times and had my bag searched |
| 20 | He says it 's going to get bigger and bigger and alot of our pasture land is going to be cannabis plantations and they 're going to be legal ones because they 've been granted licences to possess and grow it . |
| 21 | They never think about it ? but when the day of the lord comes , you shall be like because you 've been born gain in his |
| 22 | TWICE in 24 hours we 've been shown letters from Ossie Ardiles , written in the week of his barbaric departure . |
| 23 | I 've been I 've been advised chair that I 've made the same mistake as you did so . |
| 24 | But it was partly due to Ruddock that Southampton start the season out of pocket — they 've been fined £20,000 by the Football Association as punishment for their appalling disciplinary record last season . |
| 25 | I mean er I 've been told circumstances where there 's been a pensioners who ca n't move very well . |
| 26 | You 've been rode merr often than Trigger By the light of the silvery moon Ye think he 's Clark Gable , turns oot he 's The Creature Fae the Black Lagoon . |
| 27 | As a publish writer yourself I told her I 've been published articles you will understand the need for market targeting and as you mention at twenty thousand words is not full-length , though this could be if was aimed at children . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been washed way inland . |
| 29 | Having granted permission to go ashore , I 've been promised trout for supper , although he 's never caught anything worth eating yet . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been offered work in the States but unfortunately nothing I actually wanted to do , ’ the 34-year-old said . |