Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 2 | I think this has already been reported to your office . |
| 3 | They have been over the greater part of Van Diemen 's Land and the Islands in Bass 's Straits and appear highly gratified with their peregrinations : a government vessel has generally been devoted to their use . |
| 4 | Suffice it to say that all attempts to evict Dicky from his rightful home have met with considerable misfortune , and disturbance of such a nature that he has quickly been restored to his home . |
| 5 | But even more so , the miraculous survival of the Jewish people has mainly been ascribed to their faithful adherence to these laws . |
| 6 | Much of the responsibility for running our community and educational programmes has now been devolved to our business and operating sites . |
| 7 | The banking hall was partitioned to contain the noise of the new computers but the hall has now been restored to its original open form . |
| 8 | Although seriously damaged in World War II the museum has now been returned to its original magnificence . |
| 9 | The chapel has now been returned to its former glory . |
| 10 | ‘ To discuss the will of your sister , the late Miss Faith Margaret Lavender , which has today been brought to my attention . ’ |
| 11 | It has recently been called to our attention that Innocent added the notion of the Church of purgatory to the Church militant ( the Church on earth ) and the Church triumphant ( the Church in heaven ) , championing the idea of three armies that acted through fire , combat and praise . |
| 12 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 13 | A man who 'd once been engaged to her sister . |
| 14 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
| 16 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
| 17 | " Take the Tran family over there who 've just been introduced to your father , for instance . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone . |
| 19 | Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it . |
| 20 | Here there had been a marriage three days before , and the bride had just been brought to her new house that morning . |
| 21 | For the monastic reformers Odilo of Cluny and Richard of St Vanne were renowned for their consolidation of monastic demesnes , their determination to ensure that what had once been granted to their houses should remain their inalienable property . |
| 22 | Presumably it had once been attached to her bag . |
| 23 | Hilduin and Gerald had both been appointed to their posts by Louis ; though their loyalty had wavered in 833 , both had soon recovered imperial favour . |
| 24 | But Mr Smith 's and Mr Jones 's attention had now been drawn to my father and no doubt rather bored with what the view outside had to offer , they proceeded to amuse themselves by shouting out unflattering remarks concerning my father 's ‘ mistake ’ . |
| 25 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |
| 26 | When I started my enquiries into our family history I was told that Mary Kell was two years older than George Webster and that she had previously been engaged to his elder brother who had died before they could marry . |
| 27 | The information had actually been passed to her personal assistant , Katharina Schoop , by an aide in the Justice Ministry , Renate Schwob . |
| 28 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 29 | A bottomless dustbin , a plastic oil container and a private selection of empty bottles have already been added to his private junk heap , waiting to be collected one day when he has time . |
| 30 | More than thirty have already been delivered to their owners some of whom have already done crazy things with them — like the man who tried to land on Meribel altiport 's 400-metre long , 6,000 feet high uphill runway with a tailwind . |