Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been done to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went on and delivered a fast three minutes of the cleanest material I had , most of which had been done to death already by every comic who went before me and would no doubt be done again by those who followed . |
| 2 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 3 | Angry though the prince was about this , he was still trying to repair the damage which had been done to Russo-Bulgarian relations when Roumelian irredentists took the game out of his hands . |
| 4 | Zoser , as rigid as Andrus and far less intelligent , had taken it upon himself to put right the wrong which had been done to his friend and his church . |
| 5 | And with good reason — it has been done to him already ! |
| 6 | That 's a cruel thing to say , but it 's been done to me often enough in the past : you find yourself saying ordinary things and the person next to you is suddenly being witty . |
| 7 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 8 | The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past . |
| 9 | Here , though , is a very brief account of what has been done to date and what was found . |
| 10 | He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a combination of shock , pain and exhaustion and the overall effect of what had been done to her . ’ |
| 12 | Then , in her attempt to experience more closeness to her husband and to drive him to understand what she felt like but could not make conscious or put into words , she did to him what had been done to her . |
| 13 | J. Anderson Black ( alias Gordon M. Williams ) was not amused by what had been done to his novel . |
| 14 | She could no longer bring to the man she loved her untouched innocence , and , worse than that , she could not bear his lovemaking because it reminded her so bitterly of what had been done to her . |
| 15 | He suspected that perhaps McAllister , always so gallant in facing life , as he had now seen on several occasions , had tried to suppress , to crush down the awful memory of what had been done to her , had refused to give way to grief , to shed healing tears , until in his arms something had reminded her so strongly of what had passed and broken the barriers her will had erected . |
| 16 | They were classic , and whatever had been done to McAllister had been so severe and unwanted that unless she was cured soon she would be stricken for life , all her bright spirit running to waste . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not what she 's done , it 's what 's been done to her . ’ |
| 18 | He says no word of what 's been done to him , he shows no mark , but the thing is there , and I can not account for it . ’ |