Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Find out if any of them has been linked to Hendrique over the past few months . |
| 2 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
| 3 | While nothing has been decided to date , an exchange exhibition of Library of Congress material remains a possibility : the evolution of the relationship between church and state in Western culture , focusing on the Library of Congress 's Founding Fathers material has been mooted . |
| 4 | I 'd been invited to dinner too , but declined . |
| 5 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 6 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 7 | There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor . |
| 8 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 9 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 10 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 11 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 12 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 13 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 14 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 15 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 17 | Why could n't I have been born to be successful and brainy ? |
| 18 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 19 | About five weeks ago , I had been invited to a presentation by Garth Enterprises , who were unveiling their plans for a golf course and leisure complex which would also include a hotel and the provision of some expensive houses alongside each fairway . |
| 20 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 21 | ‘ I had been invited to Miss Havisham 's to see if she liked me . |
| 22 | I had been invited to a banquet by some mad Russian prince . |
| 23 | Lena Pye , Uplands , Etherley Lane , Bishop Auckland : I had been invited to the public gallery at Durham Assizes ( crown court ) by Supt Vickers to watch part of the trial of Mr Louis Bloom , a Sunderland solicitor . |
| 24 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 25 | For about a year , since the summer before last , in fact , I had been writing to her and she to me and , because of the distance and something else I have n't been able to put my finger on ( maybe a need for excitement ) , the letters had become more and more sentimental , more and more loving , more and more like proper love letters . |
| 26 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 27 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 28 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 29 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 30 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |