Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jesus appeared after his resurrection to his disciples in Galilee , he told them , ‘ I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth . ’ |
| 2 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 4 | Anyway , as I have been given more recognition and opportunity to draw to my strengths under your editorship , I would like to express my appreciation and thanks for giving me a ‘ go ’ . |
| 5 | I have been given enough money for you to live the life of a gentleman in London while you are studying . |
| 6 | I have been sent another example , which is rather more serious . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 8 | This view of scientific theories may make me an instrumentalist or a positivist — as I have said above , I have been called both . |
| 9 | I HAVE been left some money by my grandmother and have decided to buy myself a car with it . |
| 10 | No , I have been told that |
| 11 | ( I have been told many times by participants in such workshops that they have felt it necessary to conceal from their colleagues where they were going ! ) |
| 12 | I have been told these engines were derated to 90hp by a plate under the carbs . |
| 13 | I have been advised that situation ( 1 ) applies to your Night , Early and Back shifts but that situation ( 2 ) applies to your Day shift . |
| 14 | I have been advised this week that out of 18 UK applications for this section of the Human Capital and Mobility Programme only three succeeded . |
| 15 | In parts we have been given that modern definition . |
| 16 | ‘ We have been given another chance and it 's up to us to take it . ’ |
| 17 | They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment . |
| 18 | If Labour come to power we have been promised that access to the countryside for canoeists and ramblers will be reviewed at an early stage . |
| 19 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 20 | Mr Andrews believes they have been accepted this year because they are running as a family team . |
| 21 | They have been handed all the debt recovery work of Westminster City Council in one of the biggest steps by a local authority in the contracting out process . |
| 22 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 23 | It is what people do with them after they have been issued that 's the problem . |
| 24 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |