Example sentences of "we [vb base] been [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just finally , on Friday we are in to the we 've been invited into a bags competition , you know , that 's after the bags actually means bookmakers afternoon greyhound services , and we race that every Friday as you know erm anyway we 've been invited to erm a national championship involving the other bags tracks that erm involved in this erm and so we stage our two heats on Friday . |
| 2 | Seems we 've been beaten to the week 's top rock'n'roll scoop yet again by The Star 's ever-incisive pop columnist LINDA DUFF . |
| 3 | For the last six months the momentum has grown we 've been lectured to by ex-leaders of the Party by ex-parliamentary stars by Give-us-a-Meal Roy by budding prima donnas by the wagon-load , telling us how we should be gagged ! |
| 4 | Somehow we 've been transported to another world . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And we 've been recommended to you by one of your staff , I believe . |
| 6 | Well the , I mean the thing is that erm over the past erm we 've been recommended to people |
| 7 | In brief , the period of modernism has come to an end and nothing ( for which read nothing like what we 've been used to ) has replaced it . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 9 | So what I 'm really asking for is full democracy and not the rather closed democracy that we 've been used to in this country er for too long . |
| 10 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 11 | And as a result we have been treated to the delightful sight of Princess Diana in a variety of stunning swimming costumes . |
| 12 | But I wish it had n't been tonight , for tonight we have been invited to Gemma 's house for supper . |
| 13 | The inward grace is that we have been born to a new relationship with God . |
| 14 | If we have been outplayed to any degree in the last year , the opposition scores goals and wins . |
| 15 | The world is in turmoil with civil strife and stress ; as Christ 's followers , we have been called to be peacemakers , and so we pray for peace in God 's world . |
| 16 | We have been preached to by film stars and eastern gurus ; by so called fitness experts and by celebrities who want to tell us how to maintain youthful looks . |
| 17 | We have been referred to Hunter v. Walters ( 1871 ) L.R. 7 Ch.App. 75 ; National Provincial Bank of England v. Jackson ( 1886 ) 33 Ch.D. 1 ; King v. Smith [ 1900 ] 2 Ch. 425 and Gallie v. Lee [ 1971 ] A.C. 1004 . |
| 18 | We have been referred to those authorities . |
| 19 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 20 | We have been thought to be ‘ ignorant of the nature of spirits ’ , he says , because we have no ‘ idea ’ of spirit . |
| 21 | ‘ We have been brought to our present position by the policy and behaviour of the South African Rugby Board , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 23 | Yet we have been programmed to be curious , to question , to probe and to seek to solve riddles . |
| 24 | In some areas the new standard might differ markedly from that we have been used to in Britain . |