Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as they knew that Bella had been assigned to her , the other two trainees cornered Marie in the canteen and briefed her on what to expect . |
| 2 | It was the first time that Ethel had been summoned to her form-mistress for any reason other than praise . |
| 3 | Whereas Goneril and Regan had been shown to us first in disguise , and then in reality , Edmund begins in reality , and only adopts disguise when his father enters . |
| 4 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 5 | Robert had been attracted to her ‘ lively mind ’ , feeling himself inadequate with words . |
| 6 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 7 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 8 | Mr Higgs said Capper had been married to his 47-year-old wife Carol for six years , but it had been a stormy relationship and there were frequent drunken rows . |
| 9 | Symbolically , at least , a formal connection had been made in which the success of US policy in strengthening Western Europe had been linked to what was in effect Congressional interest in policies which would ‘ contain' communism in Asia . |
| 10 | They said that they were members of the MRF and that the Thompson had been issued to them by the RUC 's own Special Branch at Castlereagh , Belfast . |
| 11 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 12 | To everybody , I walked round the site with Paul and and Stuart last Friday because Paul had been whingeing to me about erm twenty five K G palletizing and the fact that they were n't they were n't properly packed as it were . |
| 13 | If Sombro had been referred to me at one of my clinics in England , the problem would have been easy to diagnose and the treatment straightforward . |
| 14 | Alice had been sent to him , in the midst of all his unhappiness and frustration and failure , this beautiful talented musician had been sent to him to save him . |