Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several so-called religious visions of the Middle Ages have since been attributed to it . ’ |
| 2 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 3 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 4 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 5 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 6 | The cruise missile also has not been tested to its full distance overland , because the United States does not have the space . |
| 7 | What a pity the invitation had not been extended to someone more congenial , such as the ubiquitous Austin Mitchell . |
| 8 | That suggestion has not been made to me . |
| 9 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 10 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 11 | The information that the hon. Gentleman has , has not been confirmed to me , except in certain minor respects , but it is a serious issue with which we continue to deal . |
| 12 | But he insisted he knew nothing about either the debt or the court case because the bill had not been sent to his home . |
| 13 | After her long wakefulness in the night there was no escaping that thought , there was no escaping the suggestion of a pattern : the son who had not been born to her was nevertheless there for her . |
| 14 | ( But there was always the sudden stab at his heart when he reasoned thus , because he had not been born to it ! ) |
| 15 | Three of these , all very fine examples , have not been ascribed to him before . |
| 16 | and says erm we 've not been talking to her it sa she 's not the one to write . |
| 17 | The presence of IBS in individuals has not been linked to their fibre intake and its presence in countries such as China makes it unlikely that a single dietary factor such as fibre deficiency is at fault . |
| 18 | Our command ? no , because it 's not been put to them yet |
| 19 | Her beautiful face would have persuaded most men , including Troy if he had not been married to her , but he no longer loved her enough to agree to anything she wanted . |
| 20 | You know sort of eleven years old , she said I 'm , I 'm god , its not been proved to me , its not been proved |
| 21 | Has it not been told to you " from beginning " ? |
| 22 | A garda spokesman said that the attack on Mr Keane , who works for the Republic 's Department of Agriculture , had not been reported to them . |
| 23 | On the face of it , our young lady is singularly lacking in family connections ; yet , from her appearance , she has not been left to her own devices . ’ |
| 24 | His name had not been mentioned to her at all yet she knew his name from the description straight away . |
| 25 | They have been over the greater part of Van Diemen 's Land and the Islands in Bass 's Straits and appear highly gratified with their peregrinations : a government vessel has generally been devoted to their use . |
| 26 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 27 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 28 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 29 | I think this has already been reported to your office . |
| 30 | The current exhibition at the Cini Foundation in Venice , ‘ From Pisanello to Tiepolo : Venetian drawings from the Fitzwilliam Museum ’ ( until 15 June ) is also dedicated to Pouncey 's memory , while two major exhibitions have already been dedicated to him , one in 1978 at the Louvre and another at the Fitzwilliam in 1985 . |