Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember too being taken to school for the first time . |
| 2 | He has been the most inspiring of any artist that I 've ever been exposed to one way or another . |
| 3 | ‘ That was just about the most disgusting exhibition I 've ever been subjected to ! ’ |
| 4 | And of course I 've never been introduced to you properly . ’ |
| 5 | I 've never been used to that . |
| 6 | Presumably the man expected him to add , in the section of the proposal form where you were supposed to talk about your passion for hang-gliding or free-fall parachute jumping , a brief paragraph along the lines of I HAVE ALSO BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST . |
| 7 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 8 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 9 | One Sunday , I went to one of the best planned and happiest birthday parties that I have ever been invited to . |
| 10 | I was beaten and spanked by my father as a child , teenager and young adult , and it was the most distressing and hurtful thing I have ever been subjected to . |
| 11 | I have occasionally been known to be kind to an old lady and I do n't kick every stray dog that comes across my path . ’ |
| 12 | It was inappropriate of me but I have always been attracted to that kind of danger . |
| 13 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
| 14 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |