Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She has been invited to speak at conferences and study days all over the country . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No study has been conducted in other areas in Spain where the cuckoo is sympatric with several potential hosts , and no corvids other than magpies have been observed to breed at Sante Fe . |
| 6 | He had never been asked to sit at table with a guest before . |
| 7 | He 's currently developing a play about Lawrence 's experiences in the First World War and he 's been asked to look at Lawrence 's novel Kangaroo , by the BBC . |
| 8 | But the ways in which we have been asked to look at consumer credit use are hardly relevant to TV rental . |
| 9 | The pride she had shown when Eva had been asked to speak at meetings when she was home on leave . |
| 10 | He had been asked to appear at Reading Coroner 's Court on 2 October 1929 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At one point it had looked as if she might have been forced to live at home with her parents , and much as Rachel loved them she knew that arrangement just would n't work . |
| 15 | And Alwyn has been paid to stay at home on Friday |
| 16 | He 's , he 's been paid to stay at home on a Friday |