Example sentences of "been [verb] to [pron] [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 | The Book issued in 1558 had given fairly realistic values and had thus helped to increase the revenue ; thence forward the values remained almost unchanged until the reign of James I. Nominal duties of 5 per cent had gradually been eroded to something less than 3 per cent . |
| 3 | There was never any prospect of that happening and now the commitment has been downgraded to one whereby work will have started on all the sites by that date . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | None of what 's been happening to her lately has sat well with her temperament . |
| 6 | ‘ So he 's the one behind everything that 's been happening to you recently . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And with good reason — it has been done to him already ! |
| 10 | No , because it had n't been transferred to anybody else . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But then , she 's been topping to us lately . |
| 13 | Some remote pain stabbed at Paul , where had that been said to him before ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Excellent examples of this have been related to me mainly about mothers-in-law and other relatives ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The job had been offered to her out of the blue . |
| 19 | Most hire firms will , however , extend the period of hire , unless the equipment has been promised to someone else . |
| 20 | You 've been lying to me all along . ’ |
| 21 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What you 've done for six long years , and more especially what you 've been doing to me ever since we met again ? ’ |
| 26 | you been doing to yourself now ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ The board are currently selecting a short list of candidates who have been introduced to us independently by Pro Ned Limited . |