Example sentences of "he [verb] been [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pictures of him have been circulated to staff at Shorefield Country Park , near Lymington , Hants , with the warning : Do not let him compete . |
| 2 | It was Steve McQueen who was picked to play the French criminal determined to escape from Devil 's Island where he has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a pimp , of which he claims he is innocent . |
| 3 | He has been compared to Freud , Whitman and Wordsworth , although the late John Cheever , in one of his more paranoid outbursts , suggested that he was merely an invention of the New Yorker . |
| 4 | He has been chattered to death . |
| 5 | He has been likened to Shakespeare 's Iago , to the Scottish grave-robbers Burke and Hare , to an ogre , to a rottweiler . |
| 6 | It looks like Strachen came through his reserve game last night 'cos he has been added to tonights squad . |
| 7 | He has been married to Emily for nearly forty years . |
| 8 | Then Teddy Sheringham blasted a terrific goal — but since then he has been sold to Spurs . |
| 9 | He 'd been battered to death . |
| 10 | He 'd been stabbed to death . |
| 11 | She 'd been so sure he 'd been born to money . |
| 12 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 13 | ‘ At this moment , yes , but he 'd been promoted to registrar and would have assumed that title in a fortnight 's time . ’ |
| 14 | Sam was n't privileged to meet them either as he 'd been set to work whitewashing the Barracks , which they never got around to inspecting . |
| 15 | He 'd been put to bed early , exhausted after a visit from Konstantin and his girlfriend . |
| 16 | Madam Speaker has the lord president of the council noticed the response of Mr Reynolds and to Miss Mary Harney 's question what representations has he had been made to United States over Gerry Adams ' visit . |
| 17 | Ramsgate had tired of the honour of his presence and he had been sent to Sandwich , under whose jurisdiction the Broadstairs police force came . |
| 18 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 19 | He had been sent to Belpan by Colonel Smith as bait for gun-runners . |
| 20 | He had been born to money , power , and good looks ; with a combination like that at his command , why would he hesitate about anything ? |
| 21 | I telephoned that prison only to learn that he had been transferred to Risley . |
| 22 | One excuse given was that the authorities did not want Blake to associate with another spy which would have happened if he had been transferred to Birmingham prison . |
| 23 | He was in Long Lartin prison when he wrote to me , but by the time that I was able to make contact with him , he had been transferred to Winson Green prison . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 26 | As he followed the path that led towards it between bare-branched shrubs and sturdy evergreens , he fancied for a moment that he would come upon Morpurgo and find him a replica of himself , some doppelgänger of Dysart 's devising planted here in England whilst he had been banished to Rhodes . |
| 27 | Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus . |
| 28 | While I was out , Reg Pybus dropped in a note saying he had been invited to Wrexham with a view to joining them as coach . |
| 29 | He had been invited to Hall 's conclave , but did not attend . |
| 30 | He had been invited to dinner by Jenny . |