Example sentences of "[been] [verb] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | While little detailed work has been undertaken to date on the nature of these population movements , preliminary research carried out by the investigator in Costa Rica in 1987 with support from the Nuffield Foundation suggests that migration patterns have been strongly differentiated along lines of gender : whereas men have tended to migrate out of Guanacastle , at least on a temporary basis , many women appear to have moved permanently to towns within the region itself . |
| 2 | In the forty-odd experimental studies that have been reported to date on periods of sleep loss longer than two days , hallucinations have been uncommon , tending to affect individuals in solitary vigils , rather than those in groups . |
| 3 | Swimmers in distress have been carried to safety on dolphins ' backs . |
| 4 | Bazoft had been sentenced to death on March 10 after a three-day trial . |
| 5 | Neamy had been sentenced to death on April 30 , charged with spying on Palestinian refugees in Iraq after allegedly admitting to working for Mossad , the Israeli secret service . |
| 6 | The second man , 20 , has been charged with possession of cannabis and Ecstasy and has been bailed to Court on July 7 . |
| 7 | As the medieval allegory is not among the categories into which reviewers are accustomed to fitting witty first novels by women , it is not surprising that the multi-level approach should have been attributed to indecisiveness on the part of its author . |
| 8 | Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike . |
| 9 | She had been invited to dinner on Sunday evening by another member of her women 's group , and she had promised to take a pudding . |
| 10 | Sam did not answer her prayers because he was not near enough to hear them , having been set to work on the floor above , sweeping up . |
| 11 | Altogether , four employees of the Iraqi government and three employees of the BNL had been brought to trial on Feb. 28 , following more than 18 months of investigations by US officials into illegal loans made by US banking institutions to Iraq . |
| 12 | True , it 's a waste of natural resources , but a single issue of some daily newspapers is a far greater ecological sacrifice than all the guitars that have ever been put to death on stage . |