Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |
| 2 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 3 | The advice was given after Jo had been speaking to both children and their parents ( an audience that included 12 year old Romy Hutchins — a participant in the Challenge — and her father Paul , the former British Davis Cup captain and national team manager ) , in a unique question and answer session which preceded an on court clinic for the 20 or so participating juniors . |
| 4 | But the water company spokesman said letters had been sent to all tenants letting them know what was happening . |
| 5 | The notice of payment of tax as determined by the General Commissioners had been sent to this address . |
| 6 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 7 | Originally , two representatives from each of Russia 's republics and regions had been invited to this meeting . |
| 8 | There were one or two guests that had been invited to both Breasbrough parties . |
| 9 | Two days before last Q.T. Day the Society 's representatives had an interview with the Sports Council Grant Panel — the serious situation arising from that had been explained to all teachers present and everyone was asked to take a copy of the Development Plan to study . |
| 10 | This paper had been given to all councillors by an official of Orkney Islands Council . |
| 11 | Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man . |
| 12 | Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man . |
| 13 | But by the end of the 1970s , added impetus — and critical changes of direction — had been given to this expansion . |
| 14 | The Department of the Environment , announcing the allocations , said priority had been given to those sites which were most badly contaminated . |
| 15 | Alexei had expected to be seated beside Tulagai and Targoutai , the half-brothers of Nogai and T'zin , but instead he had been led to this place beside Siban . |
| 16 | He had been summoned to this meeting at short notice . |
| 17 | We lesser mortals who had been banished to such places as Wolverton were , however , less fortunate . |
| 18 | Maurin had been involved to some degree in everything that had happened . |
| 19 | Meanwhile it had been fitted to many warships and liners , including the Scandinavian and Lusitania . |
| 20 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 21 | If a similar prohibition had been made to all film critics entering Hook , I doubt whether the reviews of Steven Spielberg 's Peter Pan adventure would have been half so bilious . |
| 22 | A vertical thread on the chart showed the actual number of vehicles which had been completed to that stage at a given time . |
| 23 | In a confidential statement to the council 's investigating committee Mr Horn said he had suffered stress since more than half of his duties had been transferred to another education unit in 1989 . |
| 24 | Every kind of reason for it went through her mind : the doctor had given him six months to live , his family was moving away from the area , he had been transferred to another school . |
| 25 | The two cousins had been writing to each other in secret for several weeks , and Cathy had used the milkman as a messenger . |
| 26 | It is made clear that the boy was exposed to serious danger by his father 's irresponsibility and by his sisters ' departure : but his sisters had been exposed to this father too , and had had to defend themselves . |
| 27 | He drew up a map of Scotland based on where the men lived and found the excess of cases in children from rural areas who had been exposed to those men . |
| 28 | The result of the application to the Court of Appeal on 4 November 1991 might have been different if the true position had been known to that court . |
| 29 | Finally it was recorded that " representatives of G-1 and G-5 should go to Main Eighth Army for discussion " and Eighth Army had been notified to this effect on 23 May , as a reply to its signal U 128 of 21 May requesting guidance on questions concerning " various nationals " . |
| 30 | Here they fought bitterly with Jewish forces for control of the Jerusalem area , which had been allocated to neither side under the Partition Plan . |