Example sentences of "[adv] be to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | first time I ever one , was old Freddie and I 'd , I 'd only been to depot . |
| 2 | she 's only been to work once since Christmas , she went erm last Friday |
| 3 | We have all been to school , and many have children at school . |
| 4 | The correct way to shut the machine down is to type EXIT to return to Windows , quit Windows and then switch off the machine . |
| 5 | To do so was to court death and to surrender , not only to the hurricane , but to surrender a nation , however small , into the hands of killers . |
| 6 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |
| 7 | We were taught at home by Mam 's maiden sister , Aunt Mary , who had not been to school herself . |
| 8 | A report from a social worker revealed the girl had not been to school since November last year . |
| 9 | ‘ I have not been to Service these few years , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 11 | Fitzormonde and Mowbray had always been soft , they could whine and moan that they had not been to blame , but Horne had agreed to Whitton 's plan and built a thriving business on the proceeds . |
| 12 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 13 | Well this i that 's a lunch club rumour because that one has not been to airport |
| 14 | He was fully dressed , his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all . |
| 15 | She still had not been to confession . |
| 16 | His magnificent gifts of drawing — not exaggerating — character and of getting an atmosphere have so worked that few of us have not been to sea in frigates before the age of eighteen and come in some way in contact with non-comfortable men and women . |
| 17 | It is — The Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) , laughs and cackles , but I have no doubt that she has not been to Archway Tower . |
| 18 | In fact I 've scarcely been to bed before one o'clock any night since I first realized he was dyslexic . |
| 19 | For contaminated groundwater , the standard process has generally been to pump-and-treat the water on-site , with subsequent recharging to the aquifer or disposal to a sewer . |
| 20 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 21 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 22 | We 've just been to Nursery . |
| 23 | He 's drug-free , he 's just been to hospital , y'know , he 's got the kids , if he goes away , the kids 'll end up in a home , which was the biggest factor really . |
| 24 | She could not be to Pen as Minnie was to Miss Arabel since there was a mother in between but she had a great desire to see her former charge treat her as freely when he reached manhood . |
| 25 | He has just seen that the ultimate aim of the caseworker must not be to casework at all , but to get his cases to face up to caseworking themselves . |
| 26 | None of their friends or family had ever been to university . |
| 27 | ‘ You ever been to sea ? |
| 28 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 29 | He asked her , smiling over the top of his glass , if she had ever been to bed with a man and when she said ‘ not exactly ’ he had burst out laughing and touched her cheek with one strong brown hand . |
| 30 | Have you ever been to church at night ? |