Example sentences of "'s been [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , she 's been invited to that wedding in Africa ? |
| 2 | Seven hundred quid , that 's why Paul 's been invited to this meeting . |
| 3 | After the release of stills from The Delinquents movie , she 's been likened to sex-icon Marilyn Monroe and it is a comparison that Kylie does n't wish to deny . |
| 4 | his leg , so erm , he 's been moved to Royal hospital , I went to see him yesterday and he did n't stop talking about you , bless him |
| 5 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 6 | He 's been sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 7 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 8 | It seems to me there 's there 's a very circular argument that that 's been applied to this question of environmental constraint . |
| 9 | I know he 's been doing to this man as he 's gone past so Harry sitting there the not saying you know . |
| 10 | Starring Paul Nicholas , it 's been playing to packed houses for nearly two weeks . |
| 11 | So I think you can be assured that it 's not something that 's been put to one side , it 's something that we 're trying to build in to all the work we do , in whatever ways appropriate , but er , I accept that the the implications for your comment , that we 've got to be continually , er watching ourselves , to make sure that we do that . |
| 12 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 13 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 14 | So he 's been reduced to other expedients . ’ |
| 15 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |