Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] have been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 2 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 3 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 4 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 5 | On every side table were empty beer bottles sitting sadly in rings of beer ; two empty glasses decorated the mantelpiece , and the piece of petrified driftwood which usually graced it had been shoved to the back , to make way for some empty plates which looked as if they had held meat and cheese . |
| 6 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 7 | Tony Nelson , defending , told Wirral magistrates David Roger Powney panicked when he heard she had been rushed to hospital . |
| 8 | Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City . |
| 9 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 10 | They knew we 'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us . |
| 11 | My these they were , my recollection may be wrong , I thought it had been put to the yesterday and was that it was shouted a number of times but , you were there , it was only shouted once . |
| 12 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 13 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 14 | Well then about a month later he said he rung June and said I 've been speaking to Geoff he said and th they wan na hi er hire a car for a week . |
| 15 | Erm , oh I have got something else , which is music , erm , at the last meeting I said I 've been talking to Simon from the Queen 's Hall , about the idea of doing pre-concert notes |
| 16 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |
| 17 | The eight-year-old , who gave evidence by closed-circuit television , said she had been tied to a bed by the men , who wore masks and ‘ did bad things ’ to her after putting Sellotape over her mouth . |
| 18 | Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years . |
| 19 | Village Group director Paul Hunter said he had been forced to ‘ rest ’ drivers until his firm Liverpool 's largest coach independent was paid . |
| 20 | They said he had been taken to a nearby farmhouse where he was being given shelter for the time being , and that his name was Eric . |
| 21 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |