Example sentences of "been [verb] to [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It creates a sense of well-being so attractive that few can resist using it if they have been exposed to it too often . |
| 2 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 3 | None of what 's been happening to her lately has sat well with her temperament . |
| 4 | ‘ So he 's the one behind everything that 's been happening to you recently . ’ |
| 5 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 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 | And with good reason — it has been done to him already ! |
| 8 | Explaining why he did not foresee a cut in interest rates in the near future , he said : ‘ I have to take into account the needs of savers , many of whom have been writing to me recently , the exchange rate which causes concern to some people — and I believe what people above all want is stability . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But then , she 's been topping to us lately . |
| 10 | Some remote pain stabbed at Paul , where had that been said to him before ? |
| 11 | This is set out as follows : ( 2 ) Where a person has entered into a contract after a misrepresentation has been made to him otherwise than fraudulently , and he would be entitled , by reason of the misrepresentation , to rescind the contract , then , if it is claimed , in any proceedings arising out of the contract , that the contract ought to be or has been rescinded , the court or arbitrator may declare the contract subsisting and award damages in lieu of rescission , if of the opinion that it would be equitable to do so , having regard to the nature of the misrepresentation and the loss that would be caused by it if the contract were upheld , as well as to the loss that rescission would cause to the other party . |
| 12 | May I add to those representations the ones that have been made to me locally by committees responsible for organising the summer common riding festivals in the central Borders and Scotland ? |
| 13 | Excellent examples of this have been related to me mainly about mothers-in-law and other relatives ! |
| 14 | One 's just been handed to me here , Christine from Derby says I 've kept cats for twenty years and taught them loads of tricks . |
| 15 | The job had been offered to her out of the blue . |
| 16 | You 've been lying to me all along . ’ |
| 17 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 18 | There was a great fear of the fickleness of audiences , an anxiety that the craze would die and that in particular movies would lose their fascination for precisely those sections of society that had been going to them longest . |
| 19 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 20 | Firstly , if you are a woman and were claiming child benefit , HRP would have been credited to you automatically , whereas a man staying at home to care for a child would have needed to arrange the transfer of child benefit to himself . |
| 21 | What you 've done for six long years , and more especially what you 've been doing to me ever since we met again ? ’ |
| 22 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 23 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 24 | Mr Mackie , who now lives in Inverurie , said he had dabbled with soft drugs as a teenager in London and had been introduced to them again by Murray and his brother , David Murray , when he went to work at Kenway . |
| 25 | ‘ The board are currently selecting a short list of candidates who have been introduced to us independently by Pro Ned Limited . |
| 26 | And of course I 've never been introduced to you properly . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been saying to her well you 'll have to wait she 's been saying her feet hurt , right ? |
| 28 | Another insight that has been coming to me consistently is that instead of beseeching God to undertake certain actions or to grant certain mercies or blessings we should state our faith that He is already and always at work in the way that we desire , so that our petition becomes an expansion of our address to Him , a relative clause expressing our conviction of faith that He is already doing what we were about to request Him to do . |
| 29 | Three of these , all very fine examples , have not been ascribed to him before . |
| 30 | Our command ? no , because it 's not been put to them yet |