Example sentences of "[verb] have been to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had thought that the woman had liked her , but the comment she had caught had been to the effect that spoiled children like Miss T. got what they deserved ! |
| 2 | Recently , SAVE has been to the rescue of a small but delightful Methodist chapel in a Lincolnshire village , to stop it being dismantled and shipped to the USA ; the Pavilion Theatre at Ryde on the Isle of Wight , which the local council had agreed to demolish ; and a popular Hampstead pub , Jack Straw 's Castle , which , though an important work by the architect Raymond Erith , the brewers wished to alter radically . |
| 3 | A Kashmiri Muslim , she claimed to have been to the Doon School ( the Indian Eton ) and to have completed a Master 's degree in English at Bombay University . |
| 4 | The only words spoken had been to the butler and maid , who were waiting at table and when they rose , Tamar excused herself . |
| 5 | Since 1909 the House of Lords has been under attack , and whilst one objection which has been taken has been to the undemocratic nature of the House , that is not the whole story . |