Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Manners , she says — but all you want is to belt across country for a couple of miles . |
| 2 | and all I want is to type down there , cos that 's all I do |
| 3 | One of the most subtle finishing touches that pointes give is to Bottom in The Dream when he is transformed into an ass . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been to church . ’ |
| 5 | I , I , I 've been to church twice |
| 6 | They 've been to bed and got up in the morning , and now they 're going off and doing things , like going to work and that . |
| 7 | Where 's your manners just lately , you 've lost them since you 've been to school ! |
| 8 | We 've been to Valley Park this afternoon |
| 9 | Sorry I 've been to disability Scotland |
| 10 | Tension just builds up and it builds up , and when you come out you say , ‘ Right , I 've got nothing to lose anyway , I 've been to prison so I know what it 's like . |
| 11 | I knew when I got into trouble I might get sent back , because when you 've been to prison once , you can be sent back every time you get into trouble . |
| 12 | The police do n't let you go , once you 've been to prison . |
| 13 | People look down on you , once you 've been to prison . |
| 14 | And you get a letter two days later : ‘ I 'm sorry , we ca n't take you because you 've been to prison . ’ |
| 15 | He meets people who 've been to prison , but not all of them are criminals . |
| 16 | But now I think , just because I 've been to prison there 's nothing wrong with me . |
| 17 | ‘ And it 's the euphoria that 's so addictive , because you 've been to heaven , and the real world seems a very dull place afterwards . |
| 18 | They have been to church once , for Nan Arthur 's funeral , and all they remember is the smell of dusty curtains and a dead mouse under the pews . |
| 19 | have been to theatre |
| 20 | When asked to talk through her technique , she appears reticent , suggesting that it is a little too simplistic and old-fashioned , perhaps too naive for those readers who have been to art school . |
| 21 | When asked to talk through her technique , she appears reticent , suggesting that it is a little too simplistic and old-fashioned , perhaps too naive for those readers who have been to art school . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been to school , ’ said Camille . |
| 23 | It will be the first time that politicians from Eastern Europe have been to dinner in the Speaker 's apartments . |
| 24 | ‘ We have been to hell and back but the love of this little boy has kept us going , ’ said Mary , 35 , yesterday . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been to hell . ’ |
| 26 | In the past nine years , he says , he and Kinnock have been to hell and back together but ( unless Sisyphus intrude these columns again ) paradise now seems tantalisingly close . |
| 27 | But our whole band have been to college — they were the first people in our familiar to have been able to get any further education . |
| 28 | And those who have been to Spring Harvest may respond : ‘ To avoid the notices ! ’ |
| 29 | How many of you have been to County Court ? |