Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In consulted the ladies again , and was told that these nightmares were caused by an incarnation in Ancient Greece where I had been sacrificed to the Sun God . |
| 2 | It is sufficient for that person to establish that he or she has been prevented to an appreciable extent from enjoying the ordinary comforts of life ; there is no need to establish direct injury to health . |
| 3 | She took another spoonful of her mother 's chicken soup and smiled as she pushed her fringe back out of her eyes , and she wondered what had happened to the spider — where it had been transported to and what had become of it . |
| 4 | On the left is a sample about 1 m distant on the cave floor where it has been subjected to trampling by the owls and other small animals . |
| 5 | A recent application in our own hands has been in the treatment of multiple sclerosis where it has been found to be of value in restoring at least some nerve function in about 60–70 per cent of patients treated . |
| 6 | For he had stumbled across — or it had been revealed to him — that if you act as you deeply want to act and if that , sublimely , coincides with what you aim for , then nothing is simpler , nothing is more dynamic , nothing is happier . |
| 7 | Recently new markets have been found in foreign factory ships , mainly from the USSR and Poland , which have bought much of the catch at sea , or it has been sold to French canneries which take it by road and the cross-Channel ferry from Plymouth . |
| 8 | SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT I 've been sung to by Smokey Robinson for my whole life . |
| 9 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 10 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After the hearing the woman said : ‘ It 's ridiculous that I have been brought to court . |
| 13 | That confirms the point that I have been making to the House for some time about the international slow-down and international difficulties . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ So I 've been turning to simpler guitars , guitars that limit you , but that limit you in interesting ways . |
| 16 | Flavia managed to recall that she had been asked to dinner and that the time was eight . |
| 17 | This happened to our Corporal Jane , who arrived back in camp after a brief visit to one of the neighbouring air fields to find that she had been posted to the Met Office at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon , and the corporal there , Rosemary Hilton , had received a reciprocal posting to Bourn . |
| 18 | It had been no coincidence that she had been called to the phone in the weighing room . |
| 19 | If it was being pointed out to her that she had been born to a life of political responsibility and not simply pleasure by one member of the powerful and able house of Guise in France , the message was being reinforced from Scotland by another : her mother , Mary of Guise . |
| 20 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 21 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 22 | So , although she was aware of getting ‘ red ’ letters , she never realised that she had been taken to court . |
| 23 | Et cetera , the et cetera going on to explain that she had been taken to the hospital and there examined by Doctor Bright in the presence of Constable Makepeace . |
| 24 | I heard them say that she had been brought to hospital because her belly was still full of urine . ’ |
| 25 | At one stage , in her early fifties , the depression had been so bad that she had been admitted to hospital . |
| 26 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 27 | Oxford Crown Court heard today that she 'd been subjected to repeated indecent assaults by her mother 's ex-boyfriend at their home in the Wantage area between 1985 and 1987 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I 've already mentioned the groups that you 've been allocated to . |
| 30 | And it should happen that it 's God 's will that you have been sent to us for protection and education . |