Example sentences of "you have be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have been struck by some particular type of person and have found a plausible set of circumstances in which a person of that type would commit a murder . |
| 2 | ‘ I am very sad , ’ he wrote to me , ‘ about the disgraceful way you have been treated by the Seniors , and because of it I have informed the captain I am resigning . ’ |
| 3 | You have been gripped by the urge to write a book in which there will be a murder with a murderer not immediately apparent but whose identity will eventually be made clear because of some idiosyncrasy in his or her mental make-up . |
| 4 | They are Corin and Alleyn , two killers from the clan Chattan : they do not give a donkey 's arse whether you have been sent by the Pope himself ! ’ |
| 5 | You are merely a woman who pretends to be fierce and , after all , you have been manoeuvred by men in spite of your supposed ability to take on all comers . |
| 6 | ( If you have been stimulated by all this consideration of hypothetical possibilities to find out what relationships actually hold between sex , job type and absenteeism , you might like to read Chadwick-Jones et al. |
| 7 | Then we will work out the charge for the time you have been covered by your insurance ( using our short period rates ) to the date we receive your certificate and refund any amount we owe you . |
| 8 | Then we will work out the charge for the time you have been covered by your insurance ( using our short period rates ) to the date we receive your certificate and refund any amount we owe you . |
| 9 | Then we will work out the charge for the time you have been covered by your insurance ( using our short period rates ) to the date we receive your certificate and refund any amount we owe you . |
| 10 | Then we will work out the charge for the time you have been covered by your insurance ( using our short period rates ) to the date we receive your certificate and refund any amount we owe you . |
| 11 | She argues that if you have been assisted by relatives yourself , this imposes a strong obligation to provide similar support for others , even if that means giving a temporary home to someone whom you do not particularly like ( p. 89 ) . |
| 12 | Before you switch to a new card firm , do n't cancel the old one until you have been accepted by the new issuer . |
| 13 | Brian , you have been troubled by bad health . |
| 14 | Possibly you have been influenced by the examples of masochism in the book , a term I coined to define that particular perversion . |
| 15 | That is what you have been doing by lying about the many things you say took place . ’ |
| 16 | Nevertheless , if you think this catalogue paints an unnecessarily bleak picture of how teachers are feeling , then I can tell you with some confidence that you have been deceived by the cover-up . |
| 17 | Once you have been bitten by the flower pressing bug , you will have no difficulty at all in choosing the prime specimens from your garden for hiding away in the presses . |
| 18 | One should always bear in mind that he never went back on his sympathy for the early stages of the Revolution , and his statement in 1821 , at the height of his Toryism , when he was accused of deserting France , has its own indestructible logic : ‘ You have been deluded by places and persons , while I have stuck to principles . |
| 19 | ‘ And you have been persuaded by these arguments ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I am not in the least amazed you have been discouraged by the noisome ambience of these apartments , ’ she said , darting an evil glance towards her colleagues , ‘ but I assure you we have more appealing accommodation elsewhere in our little establishment . ’ |
| 21 | You have been surrounded by speech and using it for most of your life . |
| 22 | And the other point which lies beyond the reef of my comprehension : if you have been deserted by Daddy , then why react by going to bed with Daddy-substitutes , by donating la fleur de l'âge to a line-up of old gropers ? |