Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had been invited to a banquet by some mad Russian prince . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ If I had been married to a successful man , ’ said Lili , ‘ I should never have discovered myself , or my potential . ’ |
| 5 | " I 've been invited to a dance . " |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been invited to a party next weekend . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been talking to a lot of people . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 10 | I have been banished to a windy concrete corridor far from everywhere . |
| 11 | ‘ A couple of the DJs and I have been invited to a party being given by one of the local music companies . |
| 12 | On Sunday I have been invited to a farmhouse-restaurant in the country to sample some rural Brazilian fare . |
| 13 | I know I have been reduced to a babble of disconnected comments , which do n't really say much . |
| 14 | Furthermore , the deregulation of bus services has shifted demand away from traditional large buses towards smaller ones , the demand for which has been met to a great extent by importers . |
| 15 | This is Meregill Hole which has been descended to a depth of 565 feet , giving it the distinction of being the deepest of all . |
| 16 | The panel 's report , which has been submitted to a parliamentary committee , set out two lines of argument . |
| 17 | Could I say Chairman , in Worcester and Shropshire are in agreement with this budget and er , which has been engineered to a great deal by the Chairman of the Budget and er , we 're here to , |
| 18 | Some plants which had been transferred to a growth cabinet maintained at 5°C , with a similar regime in all other respects , were measured . |
| 19 | He quoted " dramatic data " which had been presented to a recent meeting of a committee charged with deciding the future of the shell . |
| 20 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 21 | A book which had been issued to a former student , now left the Garden , has been found in the Potting Shed . |
| 22 | On completion of the conservation programme the Firefly was officially rolled out at Duxford on June 2 , in company with the IWM 's Fairey Gannet XG797 and Sea Hawk WM969 , both of which had been subjected to a similar conservation programme . |
| 23 | This , incidentally , throws some doubt on the efficacy In addition to the aggradation of the lower reaches of river valleys , the Post-glacial rise of sea level caused widespread aggradation of any lowlands which had been eroded to a sufficiently low level . |
| 24 | For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale . |
| 25 | Another , but much larger , group of vessels of late-sixth-century date , which have been assigned to a potter/workshop are known collectively as the Illington-Lackford group , after the two principal cemeteries in Norfolk and Suffolk where they have been found . |
| 26 | Classical and classicizing treatises on rhetoric and poetics are filled with descriptions of these linguistic ornaments , most of which have been codified to a very high degree . |
| 27 | AN EX-SERGEANT who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year was exercising in a hospital gym this weekend after a life-saving heart transplant operation . |
| 28 | Later , we read that ‘ nothing … shall prevent a constable delaying taking a person who has been arrested to a police station if the presence of that person elsewhere is necessary in order to carry out such investigations as it is reasonable to carry out immediately ’ . |
| 29 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 30 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |