Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [pron] [verb] been to " in BNC.

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1 THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in .
2 It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house .
3 This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous .
4 It 's the first time I 've been to a game of footie in a Porsche , and it will probably be the last , but it was fun , and added to the enjoyment of another thoroughly enjoyable day out Leeds watching .
5 ‘ As this is the first time I 've been to Ca ’ del Leone , the answer must be no . ’
6 As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life .
7 Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife .
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