Example sentences of "been [verb] to this [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 2 | The crammed loose boxes to his right seemed more menacing , as though the ugliest objects had been banished to this unvisited dungeon . |
| 3 | Dancad has recently been upgraded to this massive version making it the most comprehensive CAD package available through shareware . |
| 4 | The sermon he preached was scholarly , and explained why he had been called to this well-found charge and to the chaplaincy . |
| 5 | What was it that had been condemned to this total destruction ? |
| 6 | Then it was ‘ If I had n't been dragged to this godforsaken town by that damned no-hoper that I married … ’ and so on . |
| 7 | What 've you been doing to this poor soul ? |
| 8 | But , after nearly an hour , it was obvious that she had simply been brought to this near-empty building and left for the police to find her . |
| 9 | Because of this , people speak of cats GROWLING , SNARLING , GURGLING , WAILING and HOWLING , to give just a few of the names that have been attached to this belligerent kind of sound production . |