Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] do [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to the question , although the work is to be performed for , and eventually paid for by , the US parent , it is the UK auditor who has been contracted to do the work . |
| 2 | Outer Kent has been asked to do the honours at the next meeting . |
| 3 | Outer Kent has been asked to do the honours at the next meeting . |
| 4 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 5 | Actually , the former Soviet Union had been invited to do the honours but declined , not being up to it organisationally nor economically at present . |
| 6 | Only after his spirit had been broken did the brutality ease up . |
| 7 | Consider the following exchange between an opponent of nuclear waste dumping and a representative of the firm which had been authorized to do the dumping : " Ninety thousand people in Bedfordshire have already signed a petition saying no to the dump . |
| 8 | Erm for one world week on the twenty fourth of October and we 've been asked to do a stall there . |
| 9 | ‘ It shows we 're making an impact , ’ reckons Craig , ‘ because we 've been approached to do the music for a surfing movie , using ‘ Sun Do n't Shine ’ , ‘ Commercial Rain ’ and ‘ Weakness ’ . |
| 10 | I have been asked to do a couple of days work in Aberdeen sometime next month and also some part time development/fund-raising work for a charity ( The Association for the Preservation of Rural Scotland ) . |