Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fish that used to feed them has been taken away to feed animals . |
| 2 | Maybe if I 'd been encouraged then to find pleasure and personal fulfilment instead of pain and resentment I could manage to beat the under-11s on those final few metres . |
| 3 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 4 | I 've been sent here to find out what really happened and get him back to the States . ’ |
| 5 | Dr Lambourn , 35 , said yesterday : ‘ I have been advised professionally to make no comment . ’ |
| 6 | I am sure William no longer thinks you 've been sent here to poison my wine , or whatever dark thoughts he was harbouring . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been brought here to give a full account of Captain Meredith 's dealings . |
| 8 | She had been mistaken ever to think that he would come . |
| 9 | We had been herded together to discuss this and other issues by Dr Derek Booth , animal geneticist and scientist . |
| 10 | But what happens if we have been sent here to die , one by one ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Sixthly , we have been sent here to find the Grail and Excalibur — though there 's fat chance of that — as well as to assist our two dark shadows to root out the activities of these Templars . |
| 12 | These poets are trying to speak for the lost generations , condemned forever to inarticulacy ; and to speak aloud about simple things that they had been forbidden even to think about . |
| 13 | They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information . |
| 14 | The existence of these two adversaries reflecting incompatible interests poses practical problems for the water authorities , for while they have been established ostensibly to advance environmentalist values , and serve as a concrete expression of the belief that intervention is proper and necessary ( for which they have been equipped with the criminal law ) , they find that their legitimacy as enforcement agencies is sometimes questionable . |
| 15 | They have been advised only to admit callers who can present one of the enclosed passes ( a copy will not be sufficient for these purposes ) and provide any further identification that might reasonably be expected . |
| 16 | They have been known both to help and to hurt the desert people . |
| 17 | Claudia was talking to Philip ; she wished he was beside her , but after the first ten minutes , he 'd been taken away to talk to someone else . |
| 18 | He had been invited either to refute the allegations publicly or to withdraw from the elections , and reportedly chose to take the second option . |
| 19 | He had been asked specifically to look out for prostitutes in the back lanes near Sandyford Place . |