Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When I was in Rapeman , I ca n't say it really surprised me because I had been exposed to English people before , but I did n't think that people were being serious initially . |
| 4 | First of all I had been subjected to two substantial costs consequent upon some unexplained administrative delay . |
| 5 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 7 | but I 've been reinstated to twenty three pounds |
| 8 | I 've been tied to older people , my father … riveted to him . |
| 9 | I 've been going to Glorious Goodwood for twenty years — and invariably play golf while I 'm there . |
| 10 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |
| 11 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | All I 've been introduced to that bloke as Sally 's friend ! |
| 14 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So I 've been turning to simpler guitars , guitars that limit you , but that limit you in interesting ways . |
| 16 | He said , ‘ Listen , I 've been married to three actresses and if you want a career , I will send you merrily on your way . |
| 17 | I have been talking to one or two members of s staff at a fairly low level over the last week . |
| 18 | For over thirty years , along with my fellow teachers , I have been going to educational conferences , and training sessions , and workshops , to hear countless leaders in education talk , as you do , about the dignity of the child , and the importance of individual differences , and of fostering positive self-concepts , and building on the interests of the child , and letting the child learn from curiosity rather than fear . |
| 19 | My family and I have been subjected to unprovoked stone-throwing and spitting by gangs of youths who I presume are from right wing groups . |
| 20 | Since this news broke , I have been subjected to numerous snide remarks concerning my ability to spot a footballer when I see one . |
| 21 | Oxford Crown Court heard today that she 'd been subjected to repeated indecent assaults by her mother 's ex-boyfriend at their home in the Wantage area between 1985 and 1987 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 26 | She had been sentenced to three months in jail . |
| 27 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 28 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 29 | ‘ Everyone does , ’ said Comfort , forgetting the times when she had been driven to distracted cruelty by Julia 's unfailing matter-of-factness — and by her concentration on other people . |
| 30 | After the release of stills from The Delinquents movie , she 's been likened to sex-icon Marilyn Monroe and it is a comparison that Kylie does n't wish to deny . |