Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb base] been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I 've been to disability Scotland |
| 2 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 3 | ‘ How cruel you 've been to me , Catherine ! ’ he cried wildly . |
| 4 | Oh , Anne , how terrible I 've been to you ! |
| 5 | I 'll tell Mama when I see her how good you have been to me . |
| 6 | Are you sure you 've been to this place before ? " |
| 7 | After all we 've been to one another in the past … ’ |
| 8 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |