Example sentences of "been [verb] to his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All have been exposed to his scarifying eye and his audacious judgments ; he has projected on all his volatile wit and a searching wisdom . |
| 2 | Moreover , this was not one of those results that had been confined to his private papers , but it had been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 3 | A bottomless dustbin , a plastic oil container and a private selection of empty bottles have already been added to his private junk heap , waiting to be collected one day when he has time . |
| 4 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 5 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 6 | Zeus 's head is lost , but seems to have been turned to his proper right , and on this , the side of good omen , one would expect Pelops to stand , as he does in fig. 124 . |
| 7 | Kevin Maxwell has been appointed to his first job since he resigned as director of Mirror Group Newspapers following the collapse of Robert Maxwell 's business empire . |
| 8 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 9 | The estate , of nearly 1,300 acres , had been left to his elder brother , Paul [ q.v. ] , a scholar at Cambridge , but it was bought by Henry in 1618 . |
| 10 | When one views the subsequent history of Vietnam , and Indonesia , however , it does not seem extravagant to claim that Mountbatten could hardly have made as bad a job of it if he had been left to his own devices . |
| 11 | He roamed around like a visitor who 's been left to his own devices , curious and oddly furtive , opening drawers , reading a letter or two , shuffling through a deck of photographs . |
| 12 | When I started my enquiries into our family history I was told that Mary Kell was two years older than George Webster and that she had previously been engaged to his elder brother who had died before they could marry . |
| 13 | Mr Higgs said Capper had been married to his 47-year-old wife Carol for six years , but it had been a stormy relationship and there were frequent drunken rows . |