Example sentences of "i [vb past] been [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been invited to dinner too , but declined . |
| 2 | There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor . |
| 3 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 4 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 6 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 7 | About five weeks ago , I had been invited to a presentation by Garth Enterprises , who were unveiling their plans for a golf course and leisure complex which would also include a hotel and the provision of some expensive houses alongside each fairway . |
| 8 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 9 | ‘ I had been invited to Miss Havisham 's to see if she liked me . |
| 10 | I had been invited to a banquet by some mad Russian prince . |
| 11 | Lena Pye , Uplands , Etherley Lane , Bishop Auckland : I had been invited to the public gallery at Durham Assizes ( crown court ) by Supt Vickers to watch part of the trial of Mr Louis Bloom , a Sunderland solicitor . |
| 12 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 13 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 14 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 15 | My mother-in-law helped to run one of the early family planning clinics , and I had been despatched to an appointment with the other doctor ! ) |
| 16 | When I was in Rapeman , I ca n't say it really surprised me because I had been exposed to English people before , but I did n't think that people were being serious initially . |
| 17 | First of all I had been subjected to two substantial costs consequent upon some unexplained administrative delay . |
| 18 | ‘ If I had been married to a successful man , ’ said Lili , ‘ I should never have discovered myself , or my potential . ’ |
| 19 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
| 20 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
| 21 | By then I had been released to the Toko-ru on my own recognisance , that is an abject willingness to betray my comrades and help the malais in every way . |
| 22 | In consulted the ladies again , and was told that these nightmares were caused by an incarnation in Ancient Greece where I had been sacrificed to the Sun God . |
| 23 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 24 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 25 | I had been devoted to him , and he to me , and he had brought me a happiness I thought never to find again , But , I argued , he had been granted nearly forty more years of life , and had our son as memorial . |