Example sentences of "[vb past] been [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |
| 2 | Recounting the history of Bilmarsh farm , Gough observed : ‘ Nathaniell Reve had a desire to been tenant of this farme , because his grandfather and father had been tenants to it before ’ . |
| 3 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 4 | He had the medical advice of Sir Daniel Davies , who had been physician to Lloyd George and indeed to a number of misguided dignitaries who were influenced by his great reputation . |
| 5 | It said quite plainly , there will be trouble , mademoiselle , and Jenna followed Marguerite into the house that had been home to her father for all those years . |
| 6 | Klestil , 59 , a career diplomat who had been ambassador to the USA and permanent representative at the UN , would take over the presidency from Kurt Waldheim for a six-year term beginning on July 8 . |
| 7 | The nose had been smashed , the throat was terribly bruised , and there had been attempts to both burn and boil the remains . |
| 8 | In 1837 there had been improvements to the dressing floors , and it was then considered likely that every two months about 400 tons of merchantable ore and concentrate would soon be a reality , though the low price of copper prevailing at that time was felt to be something of a drawback . |
| 9 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 10 | Before leaving London , Belle had been secretary to an hotel keeper and wine merchant , which should have provided useful experience for the venture . |
| 11 | Another book on Burma , published in 1945 , was The Burma We Love , by U Kyaw Min , ICS , who had been secretary to three Premiers of Burma in turn , Dr Ba Maw , U Pu and U Saw , before the evacuation . |
| 12 | The Richardson boys had been visitors to her house for a long time . |
| 13 | His father , a Scotsman , had been gardener to a gentleman at Bromley before founding his own market gardening business at Deptford and , in the diary of Pehr Kalm , details about Miller 's early life are found . |
| 14 | David Checketts was his first private secretary , a former squadron leader in the RAF who had been equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh , and was the perfect person to help the Prince make the transition from the armed services into a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 15 | Both of her grandmothers had been ladies-in-waiting to the Queen Mother . |
| 16 | Rose knew Ted in this mood : he remembered that he was the son of a man who had been dresser to George Robey , and grandson of a woman who had known Crippen . |
| 17 | They had been desires to be quenched , as he had quenched other desires over the years . |
| 18 | The main impetus for change came from Gorbachev 's close colleague , Alexander Yakovlev , who was the first Politburo member to ask publicly whether there had been alternatives to the command-administrative system . |
| 19 | Viewers did not seem to be repelled by the complexities of procedures — in fact many were intrigued — but there had been reaction to the sight of empty benches . |
| 20 | She was as much their victim as the naked flesh she had seen in that bleak vision had been victim to the flail . |
| 21 | At Eton , he had been fag to a charmless older boy who had wasted no time in introducing Henry to the joys of homosexuality . |
| 22 | And she had been party to every stage of his renegotiations . |
| 23 | I had been party to a murder , and I did n't care . |
| 24 | He had to face the fact that he was a killer , he had been party to Burghgesh 's murder . |
| 25 | It had been foolishness to be so jealous . |
| 26 | However , some reports suggested that there had been opposition to Saddam 's decision to invade . |
| 27 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 28 | But there was more to it than that : as the only daughter and elder sister to Nathan and Matthew , she had become far more involved in the running of the household , and had been witness to her mother 's frequent pregnancies , miscarriages and confinements . |
| 29 | ‘ When Constanza got there she was told that her mother had made a mistake with her sleeping pills , her maid had been witness to that . |
| 30 | ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death . |