Example sentences of "[adv] i have [been] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why could n't I have been born to be successful and brainy ? |
| 2 | By then I had been released to the Toko-ru on my own recognisance , that is an abject willingness to betray my comrades and help the malais in every way . |
| 3 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 4 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
| 5 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
| 6 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm not quite sure why I have been summoned to the Home Office . " |