Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
| 2 | So many places they had been to , so many people … |
| 3 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |
| 4 | These committees have issued various guidelines ( on such matters as shareholders ' pre-emption rights , employee share incentive schemes , and discounts to market price on share issues ) which they require companies to follow if the institutions they represent are to be expected to invest in and support them . |
| 5 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 6 | Oh , and the , the trip they had was to er the Middle East , erm in the desert |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |