Example sentences of "been [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 2 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 3 | This has happened to us and has been reported to us by many other couples . |
| 4 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 5 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 6 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 7 | Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night . |
| 8 | Father , why has no word been said to us of this matter ? ’ |
| 9 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 10 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 11 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 12 | The upset and damage which has been caused to us by these articles is an extremely serious matter . |
| 13 | The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities . |
| 14 | His name had not been mentioned to her at all yet she knew his name from the description straight away . |
| 15 | The landing strip had been described to me in some detail . |