Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] to [art] " 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 | About five weeks ago , I had been invited to a presentation by Garth Enterprises , who were unveiling their plans for a golf course and leisure complex which would also include a hotel and the provision of some expensive houses alongside each fairway . |
| 4 | I had been invited to a banquet by some mad Russian prince . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 7 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My mother-in-law helped to run one of the early family planning clinics , and I had been despatched to an appointment with the other doctor ! ) |
| 11 | ‘ If I had been married to a successful man , ’ said Lili , ‘ I should never have discovered myself , or my potential . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | " I 've been invited to a dance . " |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been invited to a party next weekend . |
| 17 | Yeah , I attended , I used to run an A T C squad , well I used to run the two different ones in London , and A T C squadrons , and I must say I 've been invited to the last two open nights . |
| 18 | Just came in to say I 've been summoned to the presence . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been coming to the show every week , ’ he explained . |
| 20 | I 've been admitting to the robbery for two and a half years , but no one will listen . |
| 21 | I 've been going to the Enquirer 's Course for months now ! ’ |
| 22 | I 've been going to the cinema ever since I was 7 years old and I 've seen fights at many films . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been going to the races and washing up the dishes with my wife , as I need a bit of a rest before I start . |
| 24 | And I 've been going to the shop and changing a note every time for the change . |
| 25 | I 've been going to the gym . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been talking to a lot of people . ’ |
| 27 | and er , when we got them printed , before we even sent them off , there were one , somebody , I 've been talking to the father in , in the father of the bridge |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been introduced to every one of Estelle 's six grandchildren and I 'd so love for her to see Thomas . ’ |
| 29 | And I 've been running to the toilet , five times yesterday , five times , really bad . |
| 30 | ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any . |