Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] have [been] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 2 | That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 3 | Even after what I just learned I could n't believe you 've been lying to me since we met — that I was coming back to ask you — ’ |
| 4 | Nor could he believe he had been followed to Oxford by somebody determined to leave this macabre calling-card for him to see , for to believe that opened up possibilities too sinister to be endured . |
| 5 | I must go now , or my brother will guess I have been speaking to you . |
| 6 | Victor Chandler the longest eleven to two , I should think he 's been trampled to death in the rush . |
| 7 | Yeah , I attended , I used to run an A T C squad , well I used to run the two different ones in London , and A T C squadrons , and I must say I 've been invited to the last two open nights . |
| 8 | Whenever a trust is left , it can be left in precatory words so that someone may ask , enjoin , seek , or hope that the trustee should cause what has been entrusted to him to pass to the person the testator wished , just as he enjoined . |