Example sentences of "'ve been [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 've been appointed Chairman ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I feel as if I 've been given knock-out drops . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been given permission to swim in the pool when the family 's not using it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | I 've been I 've been advised chair that I 've made the same mistake as you did so . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been washed way inland . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been offered work in the States but unfortunately nothing I actually wanted to do , ’ the 34-year-old said . |
| 19 | After a lengthy campaign they 've been offered compensation for drop in value of their homes . |
| 20 | We 've been offered hospice places but that 's not the way we want to do things . |
| 21 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |