Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ever since I was a little boy , I 've been fascinated by acting in the cinema . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been headhunted by Hayward 's End — their village idiot 's moved to East Twittering ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been pestered by reporters for days , and it really is getting on my nerves . ’ |
| 4 | But I 've been asked by the PM to co-operate with a special operative of the CIA . |
| 5 | I 've been asked by an inflight magazine , of all things , for 1,000 words on the state of publishing . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been asked by the Bishop to find out something about the background of Hereward Marr and his wife , ’ she tried , as an opener . |
| 7 | I 've been asked by the building custodian , acting on behalf of the fire service , to inform you that , should the fire alarm sound , you are required to leave the building in an orderly fashion by the nearest exist . |
| 8 | I 've been asked by a market research to do I 've got a tape on it 's for , dictionaries . |
| 9 | I 've been asked by Mr |
| 10 | I 've got to make him feel that finally I 've been touched by his chivalry and so on and so on … |
| 11 | In the past year I 've been invited by many of you to meet branch members and to make shop visits all over the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | Er Chairman , yes , if I may just make a couple of , of , of , of , of , comments on , on , on the report side , I , I very much welcome the report back which I think has clarified a number of areas in the inspector 's report and what the services are actually , actually are doing about this one , I think er overall it 's er it , it , it 's , it 's very , it 's very er it 's very er very useful to see er what has been done erm I , I , I , I , I 've been assured by the Chief Officer er on item , item er , item three one at the top of page two , that the operational plans being devolved to individual sch will not apply to operational activity , they will be er to separate activity within the s er sch station , erm I did raise that because I was concerned about one station saying yes we will attend the fire and another one saying we wo n't , which obviously is not appropriate er but with that caveat I , I , I , very much welcome the report , I would like to move the proposals sch standing in , in , in , in , in my name that we commend the report as well as er er what 's on the officer 's erm er , er , er recomen er the re the recommended er resolution and that we send a copy of that , this |
| 13 | I 've been molested by Howard . |
| 14 | I 'm Andrew Panting , the Information Officer for the University , and for this first programme I 've been joined by Ted Nakhle and Lawrence Suss . |
| 15 | When confronted by The People she said : ‘ I 've been instructed by my employers to refer all matters to them . |
| 16 | So what I intend to do from this week is that very thing , try and fill in as it were and er make up for what was n't covered in the classes because I must admit that this year I 've been struck by the high st high standard of the class presentations . |
| 17 | And on the other hand , what are changes such that we want to say that at the end of the change there is just no me left there at all and I 've been replaced by something else . |
| 18 | Today at the fringe meeting where seventy odd people attended , I 've been inundated by people who 've come forward and said we wan na raise it , we wan na put instructions on the machines that dispense these . |
| 19 | You see , I 've been approached by Minister Chuang . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And I 've been stung by nettles , ’ he said , injured , and pretended not to hear Dorrainge who said it was a mistake to pamper nettle stings , and they had n't the time to soothe people 's silly imagined injuries . |
| 21 | In an affidavit given after his arrest , Dlamini alleged that Mbatha , also known as ‘ Johannes ’ , had told him : ‘ Look , I 've been bought by Winnie Mandela and I must go and shoot Dr Asvat dead . ’ |
| 22 | Suppressing the divine ire of the Northerner at Southern superciliousness , which would hardly serve his turn at this juncture , Greg said : ‘ The point is , I 've been commissioned by the local rag to write a pamphlet on Walter Machin and his World — ’ |
| 23 | There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise . |
| 24 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 25 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 26 | Now I 've been told by other people who 've er erm gone down this route that I 'm proposing to follow with L E As that erm there are two ways round it . |
| 27 | In a couple of days she 'll be up and about again , but I 've been told by the doctor to keep her off school for a while longer . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been told by my superiors that I could use it in the same way that I would to prosecute anyone found mistreating a dog . |
| 29 | Well the position which I 've been told by my company directors is that we are still trading , er a er an administration order has been taken out and we are continually , continuing to trade and er that er rules . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been dogged by humbug for years , ’ he told me . |