Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been asked to dinner by one of the neighbours . ’ |
| 2 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've always been a great Archers fan but I 've been sworn to secrecy over what I will be doing . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 5 | I 've been coming to conference for the last fifteen years to help build the grand union which we 've got today and I 'm not gon na sit back and watch this carved up , for nobody , for nobody . |
| 6 | Doe Contracts , ( ) , is one company which has responded with ‘ enthusiasm ’ to the LTA initiative over acrylic surfaces , and has recently signed an agreement with GreenSet , a company whose product range includes the appropriately named Grand Prix acrylic and cushioned acrylic surfaces , 10,000 of which , ( acrylic ) , have been constructed to date in Europe . |
| 7 | Other cases of congenital diarrhoea have been ascribed to absence of intestinal apical membrane Na + /H + exchange . |
| 8 | Seven Egyptian terrorists have been sentenced to death for their part in the murder of a British nurse . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , I know a few Romanies have been sent to prison for poaching — but so have a great many gorgios . |
| 10 | The two histidines ( arrowed ) have been crosslinked to DNA in chromatin . |
| 11 | For practical reasons , therefore , damages have been limited to disgorgement of profits . |
| 12 | So far , only a handful of candidates for the TBM 700 rating have been asked to thing about it more seriously and take some refresher training elsewhere before coming back . |
| 13 | Members have been asked to hand in their guns , grenade throwers , anti-aircraft guns and armoured vehicles . |
| 14 | Members have been asked to hand in guns , grenade throwers , anti-aircraft guns and armoured vehicles . |
| 15 | Members have been asked to hand in their guns , grenade throwers , anti-aircraft guns and armoured vehicles to the army and the police . |
| 16 | Sections that have been saved to disk from other designs can also be imported on to the current grid , so a completely new pattern could be created simply by combining various sections from other designs . |
| 17 | Many references have been made to phonology in this course , with the purpose of making use of the concepts and analytical techniques of that subject to help explain various facts about English pronunciation as efficiently as possible . |
| 18 | MS-DOS and Windows requesters supporting TCP/IP networks have been added to InterBase for third parties and developers interested in SQL access to InterBase . |
| 19 | The government on March 26 rejected as " totally one-sided " a report released on March 24 by the human rights organization Amnesty International , alleging that " many hundreds , if not thousands , of people [ in India ] have been tortured to death during the last decade " . |
| 20 | The review 's suggestion that drug addicts , ‘ dossers ’ and some people with mental health problems should not be counted as unemployed is partly based on the department 's evidence that a ‘ significant and relatively high proportion ’ of mental patients have been returned to society as part of the Government 's ‘ care in the community ’ policy . |
| 21 | For example , one group was drawn from a London housing estate where a high proportion of tenants have been taken to court over debt , so that it could easily get a bad name among local traders . |
| 22 | Eleven people have been taken to hospital after a fire on the Glasgow underground . |
| 23 | Seven people have been taken to hospital after a pitched battle between rival groups of gypsies . |
| 24 | More than fifty people have been taken to hospital after a crash between a coach and a lorry . |
| 25 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 26 | Branches of Dillons , Books Etc and Bookland have been taken to task over the wording on their sale signposting and promotional material , including material provided by the National Book Sale . |
| 27 | In the forty-odd experimental studies that have been reported to date on periods of sleep loss longer than two days , hallucinations have been uncommon , tending to affect individuals in solitary vigils , rather than those in groups . |
| 28 | Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients |
| 29 | Nine such cases have been reported to AI since 25 November 1990 . |
| 30 | The election here has been fought on more fundamental issues than have been allowed to surface in England : in particular , the constitution . |