Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 2 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 3 | There 's even a joke about the " reverse run " , which can happen when several people converge at speed towards the sound of a fallen durian , to find they have been beaten to it by a possessive and alcoholic tiger . |
| 4 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 5 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 6 | Madam Speaker has the lord president of the council noticed the response of Mr Reynolds and to Miss Mary Harney 's question what representations has he had been made to United States over Gerry Adams ' visit . |
| 7 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 8 | The ‘ relevant ’ skills learned concern the ability to plan projects , to apply mathematics as and when appropriate , to sustain work on them until some conclusion is reached and to communicate what has been learned to other people . |
| 9 | Alongside the Beaufighter and replacing the Sea Fury will be the Hawker Tempest II ‘ PR536 ’ /HA457 which has been restored to static condition for the RAFM by TFC at Duxford . |
| 10 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
| 11 | Cavell says you 've been invited to the awards ceremony , and she 's asked the organisers to seat us together . |
| 12 | He replaced Ye Xuanping who had been elected to the largely honorific post of Vice-Chair of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference in early April [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 13 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 16 | Childrens World marketing communications controller John Forester says he has been talking to agencies with the knowledge of the incumbent GGT and insists there is no review of the Sears-owned business . |
| 17 | On every side table were empty beer bottles sitting sadly in rings of beer ; two empty glasses decorated the mantelpiece , and the piece of petrified driftwood which usually graced it had been shoved to the back , to make way for some empty plates which looked as if they had held meat and cheese . |
| 18 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 19 | If Pinewood studios had been in need of a resident historian — and the days of historical dramas emanating from that studio seemed themselves to have been consigned to history-Kenneth Williams would have fulfilled that role . |
| 20 | That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 21 | Even after what I just learned I could n't believe you 've been lying to me since we met — that I was coming back to ask you — ’ |
| 22 | The idea is to imagine you have been called to a ‘ convention ’ to set the rules of the constitution and the social and economic structure of society . |
| 23 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 24 | One might have thought he had been beaten to the composition of the most perfectly unfilmable book by William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch , which depicts a peculiarly literary and private nightmare . |
| 25 | Nor could he believe he had been followed to Oxford by somebody determined to leave this macabre calling-card for him to see , for to believe that opened up possibilities too sinister to be endured . |
| 26 | In order to change the understanding of women , or enlarge the conception as to what is to be considered authentically female , we should have to apply what have been thought to be characteristically male attributes to a female symbol . |
| 27 | I must go now , or my brother will guess I have been speaking to you . |
| 28 | I know I have been reduced to a babble of disconnected comments , which do n't really say much . |
| 29 | Peter , I know you 've been talking to delegates all day , what 's the atmosphere like there ? * |
| 30 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |