Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] be [verb] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 2 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 3 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
| 4 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
| 5 | All I 've been introduced to that bloke as Sally 's friend ! |
| 6 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 7 | And then , immediately , I said to myself , well , you 've been saying to these men [ his captors ] ‘ When you 're in a tight corner , renounce violence ’ . |
| 8 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 9 | We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field . |
| 10 | Somehow we 've been transported to another world . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 12 | If we have been outplayed to any degree in the last year , the opposition scores goals and wins . |
| 13 | We have been referred to those authorities . |
| 14 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 15 | Well , we 'd like to think that er people , once they 've been introduced to these different sorts of drinks , and become a bit more aware about different sensible levels , would actually be interested in buying them in the future and trying them out themselves . |
| 16 | Such terrors are more likely to affect foals and yearlings because they have been exposed to fewer objects and experiences . |
| 17 | If they have been fitted to these new Foxbats , then the aircraft would have a potential complement of 6 to 8 AAMs in place of the current 4 … on top of its two wing-mounted 23mm electric cannon . |
| 18 | In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree . |
| 19 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 20 | To some extent they have been driven to this by brutal economics . |