Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 2 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 3 | I feel as if I 've been whisked away to another world , ’ she breathed , her face radiant . |
| 4 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 5 | It so happens Kelly and I have been looking forward to this weekend , and I guarantee that men will play no part in it at all . ’ |
| 6 | She had n't been looking forward to this session ; yet , deep down , there was a contrary twinge niggling at her sexuality that insisted she might enjoy it . |
| 7 | Oh , I have been looking forward to this evening … ’ |
| 8 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 9 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 10 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 11 | Inspector Naseby of all people , who had clearly been looking forward to this moment . |
| 12 | You 've been looking forward to this wedding for days now . |
| 13 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 14 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |
| 15 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 16 | Bell Resources would not comment on whether the payment had been made or whether the BIG shares had been sold on to another party . |
| 17 | However , it is not necessary for the user to prove conclusively that the right has been exercised back to this date . |
| 18 | She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations . |
| 19 | Yes , by the way I 'm gon na be able to see Max , I 'll tell you that now because I 've been dragged off to another conference , I 'm actually going down to the , to the rehabilitation workers ' phones |
| 20 | 3 A piece of string 36cm long has been pulled out to this shape . |
| 21 | Just at the time when they should have been giving most to each other , he had turned away from her , and in its way that had been almost as painful as the loss of her mother . |
| 22 | I had been brought close to another sort of despair by my inability to draw blood : a cat with no claws and ineffectual teeth . |
| 23 | It is almost as if all the punishment , admonishment and educative pressure which the aboriginal child has been spared up to this moment is suddenly and simultaneously inflicted on him ( here , for once , the masculine pronoun does not embrace the feminine because initiation is an exclusively masculine affair ) . |
| 24 | pennant 's Voyage to the Hebrides of 1772 carries an illustration by Moses Griffith which shows the castle almost separated from the land ; since then , the approaches have been consolidated around to either side of the eastern , landward façade . |
| 25 | The use of propaganda to make this behaviour unfashionable again has been suggested ( Stanley 1969 ) , but no health education programme has ever been put forward to this purpose and it is difficult to know whether such an approach would be feasible . |
| 26 | Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 . |
| 27 | Representatives of the company 's director Henny Vollenberg saythe equipment has only been taken away to another firm for storage . |
| 28 | The word ‘ natural ’ will still be allowed , says the Ministry of Agriculture 's Food Advisory Committee , for ‘ single foods of a traditional nature to which nothing has been added and which have been subjected only to such processing as to render them suitable for human consumption . |
| 29 | The Proceedings of the Royal Society completely overlooked Lear 's beautiful Parrots when it decided that , ‘ The so-called Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains ’ was ‘ by far the most accurately illustrated work on foreign ornithology that had been issued up to that period . ’ |
| 30 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |