Example sentences of "he [vb -s] been [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He has been chattered to death . |
| 4 | He has been likened to Shakespeare 's Iago , to the Scottish grave-robbers Burke and Hare , to an ogre , to a rottweiler . |
| 5 | It looks like Strachen came through his reserve game last night 'cos he has been added to tonights squad . |
| 6 | He has been married to Emily for nearly forty years . |
| 7 | Then Teddy Sheringham blasted a terrific goal — but since then he has been sold to Spurs . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's been appointed to Uxbridge 's staff , sir . ’ |
| 9 | Victor Chandler the longest eleven to two , I should think he 's been trampled to death in the rush . |
| 10 | But this year , he 's been invited to Cheltenham as a special guest of the trophy makers . |
| 11 | Yeah well two of mine did go in , one 's gone out into the fire service and the other one has stayed in and he 's got , he , he 's been doing very well , he 's been in a big big comprehensive school up in Runcorn , and then he 's been seconded to Cheshire County to the advisory service for a couple of years and so , hello ! |
| 12 | He 's been brought to Milton Keynes and will appear in court tomorrow charged with murder … |
| 13 | He 's been taken to Pentonville Prison where he 'll serve four months . |