Example sentences of "we [vb base] been [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last six months the momentum has grown we 've been lectured to by ex-leaders of the Party by ex-parliamentary stars by Give-us-a-Meal Roy by budding prima donnas by the wagon-load , telling us how we should be gagged ! |
| 2 | So what I 'm really asking for is full democracy and not the rather closed democracy that we 've been used to in this country er for too long . |
| 3 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 4 | We have been preached to by film stars and eastern gurus ; by so called fitness experts and by celebrities who want to tell us how to maintain youthful looks . |
| 5 | In some areas the new standard might differ markedly from that we have been used to in Britain . |