Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] have [been] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 2 | This should be used to adjust the model in a manner similar to that which you have been used to so far . |
| 3 | These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G-BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft . |
| 4 | Mr Shrigley said two of the women had died from the serious illnesses for which they had been admitted to the hospital . |
| 5 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 6 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 7 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 8 | Drawing on a notion of autonomy which originates with Kant , and which is developed in the writings of Hegel and Marx , Assiter extends this notion and criticises the way in which it has been confined to the public sphere . |
| 9 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 10 | Well that 's what I 've been saying to dad as well , I said the times I said we 've had cheques come back ! |
| 11 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |
| 12 | And when she reflected , as she frequently did , upon what she had been bred to , she was profoundly puzzled by her own origins . |
| 13 | It 's just what she 's been used to in n it ? |
| 14 | ‘ I think a lot of what happens when you play solos has to do with what you 've been listening to lately . |
| 15 | I do n't know what you 've been doing to yourself , girl . |
| 16 | If you 're opting for a perm or colour , always tell your hairdresser what you 've been doing to your hair . |
| 17 | What you 've done for six long years , and more especially what you 've been doing to me ever since we met again ? ’ |
| 18 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 19 | Tt er and i in a sense there 's kind of been an upward trend in terms of progression through that , that reform but within that there have obviously been a number of and in a sense what we 've been coming to terms with is , is what has been causing those , those variations , those changes in that policy . |
| 20 | In brief , the period of modernism has come to an end and nothing ( for which read nothing like what we 've been used to ) has replaced it . |
| 21 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 22 | Let's see what they 've been doing to you . |
| 23 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 24 | The ammunition was soft-nosed , not what he 'd been used to but the only kind that was allowed for hunting . |
| 25 | Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength and resolve to follow God 's will in whatever he has been revealing to you . |
| 26 | ‘ Whatever he 's been doing to you , he wo n't do it again . |