Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [vb pp] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 2 | Shit all over the floor and the walls , " said a twenty-one-year-old machinist who 'd been banished to Coventry 's notorious Woodend estate . |
| 3 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 4 | Vladimir Ulyanov — who chose to use the name of ‘ Lenin'-had been exiled to Siberia in 1895 after he had founded a Union for the liberation of the working classes . |
| 5 | It had been taken when she had been presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in the year . |
| 6 | Then he grabbed a crystal glass eagle that had been presented to Mr Reagan , 81 , raised it above his head and smashed it on to the podium . |
| 7 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 8 | As the M.D. indicates , he was a physician , and the committee specified that Griffith J. Griffiths , who had been appointed to Goldington district , and who later became the senior surgeon at Bedford General Hospital , should be co-opted in cases where major surgery was required . |
| 9 | A long-serving member of the Cabinet , he had been appointed to President Robert Mugabe 's first independence government as Minister of Transport and Power in March 1980 , and was also a member of the ruling party 's political bureau , where he was Secretary for Youth . |
| 10 | Elections were still scheduled to take place no later than May 1993 , and more than 115,000 refugees had been repatriated to Cambodia . |
| 11 | Champneys was one of a number of prominent London instrument-makers who brought a petition against Peter Dollond [ q.v. ] in 1764 to annul ( unsuccessfully as it turned out ) the achromatic lens patent which had been granted to Dollond 's father in 1758 . |
| 12 | In 1462 their land in Westmorland , including Brougham and Appleby , had been granted to Warwick and the Yorkshire estates to William Stanley . |
| 13 | In 1462 their land in Westmorland , including Brougham and Appleby , had been granted to Warwick and the Yorkshire estates to William Stanley . |
| 14 | On 19 May Gloucester ordered Robert Pemberton to seize Wymington ( Beds. ) , the land of Rivers ' brother Richard , and on 21 May the tenants of Thorpe Waterville ( Northants ) were notified that the manor had been granted to Gloucester 's ally Francis viscount Lovell . |
| 15 | On 19 May Gloucester ordered Robert Pemberton to seize Wymington ( Beds. ) , the land of Rivers ' brother Richard , and on 21 May the tenants of Thorpe Waterville ( Northants ) were notified that the manor had been granted to Gloucester 's ally Francis viscount Lovell . |
| 16 | Deputation after deputation came pouring in from constituencies whose candidatures had been assigned to Lloyd George Liberals . |
| 17 | Thomas Forster had been assigned to General George Carpenter , a highly experienced cavalry officer . |
| 18 | In the ‘ free chase ’ of Knaresborough , which had been assigned to Queen Isabella for life , they made an unauthorized perambulation and acted upon it by felling trees , planting hedges , and hunting the deer without warrant . |
| 19 | Richard had been engaged to Philip 's sister Alys since 1169 . |
| 20 | Instead it was named " Stockport School " , thus using one of the names which had been applied to Sir Edmond 's Foundation , probably from its earliest days , though the first written reference dates only from 1597 . |
| 21 | David , son of King Robert I and heir to the throne , had been sent to France by the English King Edward III . |
| 22 | There he read out a cablegram that had been sent to MCC in London . |
| 23 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 24 | On April 27 , 1990 , Norway and Israel signed a draft agreement providing for the return of 10.5 tonnes of heavy water ( deuterium oxide , used to cool nuclear reactors ) to Norway , half the amount which had been sent to Israel in 1959 . |
| 25 | The jews in the countryside had been rounded up , with the active and sometimes enthusiastic support of the Hungarian authorities , and most had been sent to Auschwitz . |
| 26 | St Paul had been sent to Rome a prisoner , and suffered eventual execution . |
| 27 | Tommy Weir , 66 , of Walker Street , in Fauldhouse , West Lothian , died last Thursday of a heart attack after waiting more than 50 minutes for an ambulance which had been sent to Falkirk by mistake . |
| 28 | There was no home leave from overseas and , as far as I knew , few individuals or units of the Eighth Army had returned to Britain , for most had been sent to Sicily and thence to the toe and heel of Italy , or to Salerno , and by this time were fighting hard up the Italian peninsula on one or other side of the Appennines . |
| 29 | Earlier , a minibus had been sent to Eton to collect the Tavistocks ' youngest son Lord James Russell , and some of his young friends including Viscount Lumley , whose parents the Earl and Countess of Scarborough were staying in the houseparty at Woburn , as were Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea . |
| 30 | Mikhail Holovich had been sent to Camp 3 , Zone I. |