Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 2 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 3 | Lena Pye , Uplands , Etherley Lane , Bishop Auckland : I had been invited to the public gallery at Durham Assizes ( crown court ) by Supt Vickers to watch part of the trial of Mr Louis Bloom , a Sunderland solicitor . |
| 4 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 5 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 6 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 7 | By then I had been released to the Toko-ru on my own recognisance , that is an abject willingness to betray my comrades and help the malais in every way . |
| 8 | In consulted the ladies again , and was told that these nightmares were caused by an incarnation in Ancient Greece where I had been sacrificed to the Sun God . |
| 9 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 10 | Jane was horrified when Erwin drove up in a Land Rover which had been given to the charity by a large company , and which he had appropriated . |
| 11 | He also broke an undertaking which had been given to the court in his name . |
| 12 | The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report . |
| 13 | The last he had heard she had returned to Ponten VI — the planet which had been ceded to the Guild of Adjudicators in perpetuity by a wary but appreciative Earth Central — but that was too far away for anything but the so-called pigeon post ; recorded messages dumped into a hyperdrone and aimed at the recipient 's projected location . |
| 14 | It also needed to collect the cases which had been referred to the consultancy service . |
| 15 | The glittering green Christmas decorations which had been Sellotaped to the ceiling and walls swayed crazily as if the whole office block was tilting . |
| 16 | The ancient payments of Peter 's Pence , which had been granted to the popes by early monarchs , were received from England , the Scandinavian kingdoms and Poland . |
| 17 | He 'd thought that it was just the calendar which had been turned to the correct month , but something else had been changed too . |
| 18 | There were no speeches , but just before Robin Tavistock cut his birthday cake , which had been moved to the middle of the gallery , the Hon. |
| 19 | The defendants were bailees of barley belonging to X which had been pledged to the Y Bank by means of warehouse receipts . |
| 20 | Hogarth House in Chiswick , which had been transferred to the Middlesex County Council by Col. R. W. Shipway . |
| 21 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 22 | Three Spanish naval vessels which had been sent to the Gulf were removed from the combat area on the outbreak of war . |
| 23 | A report by an internal party committee set up to review Labour 's failure in elections in November 1988 , which had been presented to the central committee on May 27 , strongly criticised Peres for running a campaign based on the cult of his own personality . |
| 24 | Francis came to tell us about arrangements for the funeral and he brought with him one of my father 's pictures which had been taken to the shop for framing . |
| 25 | Winston Churchill died in 1965 and was given a State funeral comparable to that which had been afforded to the Duke of Wellington . |
| 26 | After the Civil War Bolshevik control expanded easily from its bastion which had been reduced to the size of medieval Muscovy . |
| 27 | From the beginning of Phase 2 , BRAC implemented a change in the method of teaching the LGS message to the villagers : Whilst 90% of the unions ( subdistricts ) visited by Oral Replacement Workers in Phase 2 were given the same ‘ Standard ’ training which had been offered to the other unions during Phase 1 , 10% of the Phase 2 unions were chosen to test an experimental Concentrated Reinforcement Programme ( CRP ) developed by BRAC . |
| 28 | The accounts which had been submitted to the plaintiffs had dealt not only with the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses but also with the receivers ' receipts and payments . |
| 29 | Then it was Sue 's turn , and she opened up a shimmering square of silk scarf , which had been flattened to the size of an envelope and now expanded and billowed across the table like the sail of a brilliant ship . |
| 30 | There were jewelled stars and enamelled crosses worn on sashes of brilliant silk , and all lit by the glittering chandeliers which had been hoisted to the ceiling with their burdens of fine white candles . |