Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden , Olaf Bär . |
| 2 | Presumably the man expected him to add , in the section of the proposal form where you were supposed to talk about your passion for hang-gliding or free-fall parachute jumping , a brief paragraph along the lines of I HAVE ALSO BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST . |
| 3 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 4 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 5 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 6 | As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound . |
| 7 | One Sunday , I went to one of the best planned and happiest birthday parties that I have ever been invited to . |
| 8 | I was beaten and spanked by my father as a child , teenager and young adult , and it was the most distressing and hurtful thing I have ever been subjected to . |
| 9 | I have occasionally been known to be kind to an old lady and I do n't kick every stray dog that comes across my path . ’ |
| 10 | It was inappropriate of me but I have always been attracted to that kind of danger . |
| 11 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
| 12 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Mrs Tate , I have to ask you certain questions — questions which have already been put to others who were acquainted with Francis Garland , as were you and Doctor Tate . |
| 14 | The assets means the book value of the net assets ( excluding intangibles and after deducting loan capital and tax provisions ) taken from the most recent published consolidated accounts adjusted to take account of the subsequent transactions which have already been notified to shareholders . |
| 15 | She developed courses on child abuse for senior police officers , and distributed a list of ‘ satanic indicators ’ , or signs and symptoms to look out for , which have since been circulated to police forces and social workers across the country . |
| 16 | It claimed that ‘ The pooling of coal and steel production will immediately provide for the establishment of common bases for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe , and will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the munitions of war , of which they have been the most constant victims ’ . |
| 17 | Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places . |
| 18 | ‘ But as you so clearly realize , scientists have many times created tools that can be used for good , but which have then been perverted to evil use . |
| 19 | The actual ATs and PS are set out in separate documents ( for example Science and the National Curriculum ) which have recently been issued to schools ( and are also available for purchase through HMSO ) . |
| 20 | It is only in remote areas which have never been exposed to the infection that the problem occurs . |
| 21 | At that time I summarised German Enigma decrypts for Churchill at Bletchley Park which have never been released to the public . |
| 22 | The second feature of this modest success is that differences of opinion about tactics and ecology have , generally , been submerged in working towards clearly identified goals which have always been attached to a limited and defined time frame . |
| 23 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |
| 24 | She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome . |
| 25 | For example , we want to be able to take knowledge gained from studying the free recall of nonsense syllables and make predictions about our ability to remember things like telephone numbers , or the names of people we have just been introduced to at parties . |
| 26 | ‘ We have therefore been driven to the conclusion that the court has power to , and should , intervene , ’ he said . |
| 27 | We have always had a middle range approach ( in Merton 's sense ) at — though we have always been weighted to social institutions and the applied end . |
| 28 | We have always been committed to programmes of investigation … and we always will be in the future . |
| 29 | We have all been exposed to loads of publicity about the poor quality of tap water because of recent low rainfall — yet a remarkable number of people seem not to have considered the effects of this on small delicate species . |
| 30 | We have all been invited to the festivities at his palace of Fontainebleau . ’ |