Example sentences of "been [verb] to one " in BNC.
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| 1 | " He 's been posted to one of those bloody awful oil-rigs in the North Sea , and he wo n't be back till Christmas . |
| 2 | The call had been traced to one of a bank of three public booths in Saffron Walden , a market-town in western Essex , just off the M11 motorway from London to Cambridge . |
| 3 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 4 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 5 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 6 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 7 | The plot boundaries defining the crofts on which these houses stood also changed , although the early impression of great change and lack of order has now been revised to one of combination and division of consistent units . |
| 8 | He has been the most inspiring of any artist that I 've ever been exposed to one way or another . |
| 9 | Once a patient is deemed incapable , having been assigned to one of these categories , his powers of self-determination are taken from him . |
| 10 | A Medieval campanile has been added to one end of the Mausoleum and a Choir at the other . |
| 11 | An environmental health officer from Liverpool City Council visited the company 's bakery in Lorenzo Drive , West Derby , and found insects could get into the building through ‘ voids ’ around the pipework , and an insect screen had been nudged to one side . |
| 12 | As I was leaving the house Pat shouted after me , ‘ Piper , your friend Taff who shares the trench with you in the orchard has been transferred to one of the Commando units around the village . |
| 13 | But currency stabilisation has been pushed to one side for another reason as well . |
| 14 | Money is tight and fashion a luxury that has , by many , been pushed to one side . |
| 15 | The carts had been moved to one side , and now slaves were attaching torches to the arched wooden frames . |
| 16 | Attention has already been drawn to one of the objectives in establishing the Scottish Journal of Geology in 1965 , which was the rapid publication of results of research in Scottish geology carried out in universities , so that this may account in part for the halving of the average delay period after 1965 , but subsequent reductions must be due to other factors . |
| 17 | Attention has already been drawn to one of the objectives in establishing the Scottish Journal of Geology in 1965 , which was the rapid publication of results of research in Scottish geology carried out in universities , so that this may account in part for the halving of the average delay period after 1965 , but subsequent reductions must be due to other factors . |
| 18 | The promises to cut taxes had been brushed to one side , but it was unlikely that the government would wish to fight the next election against a background of undertakings that would entail their actually being increased . |
| 19 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 20 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 21 | Scepticism about the value of his word has been laid to one side ; western governments want a respectable , and reasonably fast , way out for their troops in Kurdistan . |
| 22 | Wise Speke analyst John Dean , says : ‘ Whessoe and Varec have been known to one another for some considerable time although given their emphasis on different geographical markets they have rarely found themselves in direct competition . ’ |
| 23 | But now , their budding relationship had been reduced to one set of strangers discussing events with another . |
| 24 | There , at the bar , he had been introduced to one of the heads of M.I.9 who , when he heard that Eric wanted to get back to Italy and could speak more Italian than most people who had been on the run , immediately offered to make him a member of the Allied Screening Commission . |
| 25 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 26 | A high flying professor of accountancy has been appointed to one of the top jobs at the Treasury with a salary of £100,000-a-year , the Prime Minister 's Office announced . |
| 27 | A Hungarian with relatives employed at a Timisoara hospital told Budapest radio that at least 250 bodies had been admitted to one hospital and that the death figure was bound to be higher . |
| 28 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 29 | Quite naturally , the islanders wondered if harmonious timber wolf existence included picking off one or two tasty schoolchildren as a light snack between main meals of venison , and strangely the idea has been put to one side for the moment . |
| 30 | So I think you can be assured that it 's not something that 's been put to one side , it 's something that we 're trying to build in to all the work we do , in whatever ways appropriate , but er , I accept that the the implications for your comment , that we 've got to be continually , er watching ourselves , to make sure that we do that . |