Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 2 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 3 | Magistrates were told that the defendant had been to Mr. White 's bank and had offered to pay the money stolen from them . |
| 4 | The Western movie had been to America , the new promised land , what the Old Testament and its heroes — Abraham , Moses , Samson , Saul and David — had been in Biblical times . |
| 5 | Recent trips have been to Arran , Bute , Aberfoyle and along various cycle tracks in Ayrshire . |
| 6 | How grateful the Jews have been to God and how sorely treated by God the Jews have been . |
| 7 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 8 | This covered 69 judges of the Supreme Court , House of Lords and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and showed that 76 per cent had attended ‘ major public schools ’ ( not further defined ) and the same percentage had been to Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 9 | Neither of Jo 's parents had been to Europe since her father returned from the war . |
| 10 | It 's , it was , it was er er sheer coincidence that Beverley had been to Crete the year before and I said to Jackie we 've been to Yugoslavia four years , do you want , do you want a change or do you wan na go back to Yugoslavia , she said well I 'll , I 'll have a look , I said how about , how about going to the Greek islands for a change |
| 11 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 12 | " All men fought ; all men in England had been to India for the duration of the last war , leaving behind them a country of women . |
| 13 | Philip had been to Barry 's house once with his Mum . |
| 14 | Simon Garrett has been to Suffolk , home of Greene King , to report on the battle of the brewers |
| 15 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 16 | His last call had been to Frick , the man he knew that he must convince . |
| 17 | This was the first time Athelstan had been to Benedicta 's house , a two-storied building which stood alone , an alleyway on either side and a garden beyond . |
| 18 | Mr Lewis had been to Spain |
| 19 | Not even Wallace had been to Bouton , and we were unable to find any reference to it in the literature . |
| 20 | Birmingham and the Fitzwilliam 's watercolours have been to Japan , the Victoria and Albert 's to East Germany , and the British Museum 's to Cleveland and North Carolina , a tour which resulted in the book under review . |
| 21 | I know that as the younger by a year or two I looked up to Andrew ; after all I was an inexperienced young man from a small prairie town , while Andrew had been to Europe ! |
| 22 | An earlier draft had been to George and Rowland Wilson but the latter 's name does not appear on the final copy . |
| 23 | Ianthe remembered that Miss Grimes had been to Spain for her holiday one year , but she supposed that she must have bought the wine specially when Ianthe had said she was coming to see her . |
| 24 | His sister had been to St Saviour 's . |
| 25 | Forty-six Law Lords had been to Oxford or Cambridge , seven to Scottish universities , four to Trinity College Dublin , two to London University ( one of whom had also been to Cambridge ) and one to Queen 's Belfast . |
| 26 | a ) How many students have been to Jamaica but not Trinidad ? |
| 27 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
| 28 | His elder brother had been to Yugoslavia , one of his sisters to Greece . |
| 29 | The Cap'n had been to Jarman House once … would be coming again more than likely . |
| 30 | The Bishop had been to Woodborough Junior once , to take prayers . |