Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT I 've been sung to by Smokey Robinson for my whole life . |
| 2 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 3 | After the hearing the woman said : ‘ It 's ridiculous that I have been brought to court . |
| 4 | That confirms the point that I have been making to the House for some time about the international slow-down and international difficulties . |
| 5 | The passage could be read as ‘ this is not my ‘ Histoire de l'oeil ’ , but a male story that I have been subjected to ’ , or as ‘ this is not ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ but my story of the eye which is not a his-story but a hystery , i.e. a female story ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ So I 've been turning to simpler guitars , guitars that limit you , but that limit you in interesting ways . |
| 7 | Thank you Chairman erm I would like I know that you 've been listening to the first er part of our session this afternoon , erm and I 'd like to ask you to discuss with us one of the questions that we asked the group the Pension Fund erm and that 's to discuss the balance of power that exists between the employer and the various groups and classes of pensioner . |
| 8 | I 've already mentioned the groups that you 've been allocated to . |
| 9 | And it should happen that it 's God 's will that you have been sent to us for protection and education . |
| 10 | ‘ So you 've been chatting to the Earl of Ferngrove , Jill ! ’ |
| 11 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
| 12 | We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field . |
| 13 | Mr Harrison said : ‘ Following the closure of the Swan Hunter yard the Government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we 've been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 14 | So what I 'm really asking for is full democracy and not the rather closed democracy that we 've been used to in this country er for too long . |
| 15 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 16 | The inward grace is that we have been born to a new relationship with God . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ Following the closure of Swan Hunter 's , the government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we have been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 18 | It is a reflection of this fact that there have been cited to your Lordships not only the full range of English authorities , and also authorities from Commonwealth countries and the United States of America , but in addition a number of academic works of considerable importance . |
| 19 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 20 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 21 | And then , secondly t to just sort of mention the erm perhaps the more traditional ways of of working with people once they 've been sent to you by the courts . |
| 22 | Well , we 'd like to think that er people , once they 've been introduced to these different sorts of drinks , and become a bit more aware about different sensible levels , would actually be interested in buying them in the future and trying them out themselves . |
| 23 | Storage is one stumbling block , hooks quickly deteriorate once they have been exposed to saltwater spray . |
| 24 | Second , it is possible to derive a single overall measure of test performance from all the subtest scores , once they have been converted to a common scale of measurement . |
| 25 | The trick will be to distil these desirable attributes from the new arrangements and to discard the harmful elements ; once they have been shown to be so . |
| 26 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 27 | ‘ When we have our celebration , it reminds me of Lourdes , and I 've been going to Lourdes since 1961 . |
| 28 | And I 've been going to the shop and changing a note every time for the change . |
| 29 | And I 've been ordered to . |
| 30 | And I 've been running to the toilet , five times yesterday , five times , really bad . |