Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later he was uncorking a fine claret in Masha 's room , saying he had something to celebrate : he 'd been invited to breakfast at Downing Street to help brief Maggie for her trip to Poland . |
| 2 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 3 | He had been asked to appear at Reading Coroner 's Court on 2 October 1929 . |
| 4 | This child had been asked to look at his foot carefully ‘ as if he 's never seen it before ’ . |
| 5 | The pride she had shown when Eva had been asked to speak at meetings when she was home on leave . |
| 6 | There was no state banquet to mark Artai 's enthronement , and so it was without surprise that Alexei observed that everyone who was of importance in the Khanate had been invited to dine at Burun 's house . |
| 7 | We discovered that he had been invited to stay at Wuthering Heights , by Hindley . |
| 8 | Many of Charles 's ideas sprang from a memorable visit to Boston in September 1986 , when he had been invited to speak at the Harvard 350th Commemoration Ceremony . |
| 9 | Far off , at St Ignatius Loyola College in County Galway , a similar commemoration had been timed to start at the same moment and also to end at ten minutes past nine . |
| 10 | He assumed , as he had been led to believe at meetings with General Helmuth von Moltke immediately prior to the war , that Germany would at the outset deploy some eight corps in East Prussia . |
| 11 | It was in that personal role that he had been summoned to dine at short notice . |
| 12 | Cunliffe admitted that his knowledge of Germany was inadequate and that his figure was ‘ little more than a shot in the dark as he had been pressed to arrive at it between a Saturday and a Monday ’ . |
| 13 | Later that day she had been forced to catnap at her desk , having achieved little else of consequence there . |
| 14 | In this job market , the qualifications for which they had been encouraged to strive at school were often of little use to them outside where ‘ who you knew ’ was often more useful than ‘ what you knew ’ . |
| 15 | The budgetary deficit , which in January 1990 had been estimated to stand at around Rs55,800 million , widened in June to Rs64,400 million [ see p. 37530 ] largely because of increased defence spending projected in 1990/91 at Rs63,300 million , or approximately 37 per cent of total expenditure [ see p. 37530 ] . |
| 16 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 17 | Bibles ceased to have illustrations to enliven their text , and the small number of mystery plays , which had been allowed to continue at centres such as Coventry , Chester , Wakefield , and York , were suppressed . |
| 18 | Previously , Bulgarian citizens had been allowed to own at most one apartment , a country home and a garage , and they had been allowed to sell their property only at fixed prices through the local state authorities . |