Example sentences of "i have [been] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been invited to dinner too , but declined . |
| 2 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 3 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 4 | There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor . |
| 5 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 6 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 7 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 8 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 9 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 10 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 11 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 12 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 14 | Why could n't I have been born to be successful and brainy ? |
| 15 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 16 | About five weeks ago , I had been invited to a presentation by Garth Enterprises , who were unveiling their plans for a golf course and leisure complex which would also include a hotel and the provision of some expensive houses alongside each fairway . |
| 17 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 18 | ‘ I had been invited to Miss Havisham 's to see if she liked me . |
| 19 | I had been invited to a banquet by some mad Russian prince . |
| 20 | Lena Pye , Uplands , Etherley Lane , Bishop Auckland : I had been invited to the public gallery at Durham Assizes ( crown court ) by Supt Vickers to watch part of the trial of Mr Louis Bloom , a Sunderland solicitor . |
| 21 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 22 | For about a year , since the summer before last , in fact , I had been writing to her and she to me and , because of the distance and something else I have n't been able to put my finger on ( maybe a need for excitement ) , the letters had become more and more sentimental , more and more loving , more and more like proper love letters . |
| 23 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 24 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 25 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 26 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 27 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 28 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 29 | My mother-in-law helped to run one of the early family planning clinics , and I had been despatched to an appointment with the other doctor ! ) |
| 30 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |