Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She still did n't know what had happened when she 'd been put through to the room . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's jeans and shirt had been tossed on to the rumpled heap made by his sleeping-bag and two dented pillows . |
| 3 | Her clothing had been ripped away to the waist in the horrific attack , said police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo . |
| 4 | In 1391 the castle of St Briavels and the Forest of Dean were given to Thomas , Duke of Gloucester to hold in tail male , and in 1398 the forest of Rutland to Edward , Duke of Albermarle : by 1405 the Somerset forests of Neroche , Exmoor , Mendip and the park of North Petherton had been granted away to the Earl of March . |
| 5 | Shards of glass were still falling 12 hours after the blast and computers had been blown on to the pavement . |
| 6 | A path had been worn up to the door . |
| 7 | Her disappointment over Jonathan , which had driven her to France in the first place , had been relegated somewhere to the back of her mind . |
| 8 | Just a few hours earlier British troops had been sent on to the streets of Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | This was to continue until by 1962 300 000 Dutch citizens had been sent back to the Netherlands , 280000 of them being ‘ Brown Dutchmen ’ , Eurasians , strangers to Europe . |
| 10 | Since October 1921 military detachments had been sent out to the local villages to billet in them and to insist on the tax in kind ( shades of expropriation by force in the period of War Communism ) . |
| 11 | He had married Audrey , and had been sent off to the Aleutian Islands for an anti-Jap campaign before being demobbed . |
| 12 | ’ By the time the news of his triumph had been transmitted home to the Court , the Pedrarias expedition was on its way . |
| 13 | ( The bank clerk who had occupied it had been called up to the army . ) |
| 14 | On July 14 Ghozali gave evidence to the court about the events of June 1991 , when the army had been called on to the streets of Algiers to combat FIS supporters [ see p. 38312 ] . |
| 15 | He said at Dumfries Sheriff Court that he and his friend had gone to the upstairs lavatory in the dormitory building about half-an-hour after going to bed when they had been called over to the girls ' room . |
| 16 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 17 | In orthodox psychoanalysis , after the repressions of pre-genital and genital sexuality had been pointed out to the analysand , the choice was then either to sublimate these impulses or to reject them rationally . |
| 18 | If this legal consequence had been pointed out to the bank at the time , they might have said that that was not what they intended , but that is a factor common probably to all cases in which a release is given to one of two joint debtors . |
| 19 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 20 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 21 | Henry had been invited on to the chat show chiefly because the new snooker champion was the guest of honour . |
| 22 | ‘ Anatoli ? ’ he called out after Vasili had been led away to the Zim . |
| 23 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 24 | For a moment , until the old men had been dragged back to the barricade , all was chaos . |
| 25 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 26 | Then in 1881 an expedition led by Giulietti , accompanied by thirteen other Italians , had been massacred somewhere to the north of Aussa , as was another expedition under Bianchi three years later in much the same area . |
| 27 | On Feb. 16 , 1990 , he had been elected unanimously to the office of President by the deputies to the then Constituent Assembly . |
| 28 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |
| 29 | Political and financial considerations were probably responsible for keeping the Staple at Calais ; in strictly economic terms it might have been more advantageous if it had been moved closer to the rising Dutch cloth towns . |
| 30 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |