Example sentences of "and had been [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days later , Grace McNeil , who had just lost a much-loved Rough Collie and had been sent to us by her vet , came and took the young male , Robbie . |
| 2 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 3 | Shirley Harper , Liz Headleand 's younger sister , was at none of these parties , and had been invited to none . |
| 4 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 5 | Mr Mackie , who now lives in Inverurie , said he had dabbled with soft drugs as a teenager in London and had been introduced to them again by Murray and his brother , David Murray , when he went to work at Kenway . |
| 6 | Indeed , she had dined in the Hotel the night before and had been introduced to her local MP , Sir Ralph Grunte . |