Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now he 's made Big Ben and he has n't even been to London to see it . |
| 2 | But Carla has denied ever having an affair with Mick and says she has never even been to Thailand . |
| 3 | If you force people to choose between a family and a job I suppose , you know , women lots of women choose the family erm the only way women will achieve more educationally is to be able to combine the two things and not always have to make these crippling decisions and choices between two things which most human beings want , so there is a lot of money being spent on research into sex inequality and so on , and that 's encouraging , but I think it 's being spent in slightly the wrong way and I think there 's a tendency to evade the crucial issues which are , of course , rather deep social issues about the organization of the family and work and they take a lot of changing , so I am ambivalent about that one . |
| 4 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 5 | ‘ What he does do really well is to suddenly come out with something brilliantly surreal . |
| 6 | I 'd never even been to her house . |
| 7 | The whole purpose of moving along here was to be as inconspicuous as possible . |
| 8 | The last thing she needed right now was to be alone with her thoughts . |
| 9 | He had not yet been to the Hankses ' cottage to visit Anna , and it was of this the gipsy first spoke . |
| 10 | One set of parents were regular church-goers and genuine believers ; the other parents had probably never been to church since they were married — they were merely exercising their rights , within the established Church in Britain , to have their child baptized in the parish church . |
| 11 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 12 | You had almost certainly been to the shops . |
| 13 | You 're not English and you 've never even been to England . ’ |
| 14 | I 've never even been to Highgrove , and that 's the truth . |
| 15 | I 've never even been to Scotland and my mother was certainly never chased by a Scotsman . |
| 16 | I 've never actually been to a Grand Prix before so I 'm really looking forward to it . |
| 17 | She had seen none of this glamorous life ; she had seldom even been to smart restaurants , let alone banquets and star-studded receptions . |
| 18 | I had never previously been to a race where this had happened but the race jury undoubtedly made the right decision . |
| 19 | He talked about the town , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how one day soon he must try to get out on the moor . |
| 20 | He talked about the town , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how one day soon he must try to get out on the moor . |
| 21 | The existence of this ring had been inferred after the fly-by of Pioneer 11 in 1974 , which was the second of four spacecraft that have so far been to Jupiter . |
| 22 | The staff development day which is to follow shortly afterwards is to be used by the different year teams to work out a programme of study . |
| 23 | Everyone thinks lesbians are only in prison , but I know loads of women from the outside who have n't even been to prison who are lesbians . |
| 24 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 25 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 26 | I have never ever been to Victoria Park . |