Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 2 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 3 | What , what time erm although I 've been to San Franciso , I 've never worked out what time the evening news is there . |
| 4 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and it was the first one I went to , but I must say of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I felt most comfortable and happy . |
| 5 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and erm it was the first one I went to , but I must say that of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I 've felt most erm comfortable and happy in . |
| 6 | This school looked so much bigger than the other two primary schools that I had been to . |
| 7 | Two hours later I am mentioning to Tony that I have been to Tromsø airport more times than I have to Gatwick . |
| 8 | ‘ It is part of the expectation of the President that I should be available to represent the Church , so I have been to Strasbourg to the European Parliament and also on visits to the churches in Nigeria and Kenya . |
| 9 | ‘ She thinks she 's a radical 'cause she 's been to West Belfast once and scribbled Bernadette Devlin 's name in pencil on the Falls Wall ! ’ |
| 10 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 11 | It was , she said , adding that she had been to over fifty funerals in the UK alone , the funeral of a lifetime . |
| 12 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
| 13 | Anna did not say that she was not a virgin , that she had been to bed with two of the men in West Kensington and had been , at seventeen , much inclined to suppose herself in love with one of them . |
| 14 | I was almost certain that she had been to the British Museum no more recently than I had myself . |
| 15 | Since Georgina denied that she had been to Miller 's End since Christmas , and to the woods behind the cottage since the previous autumn , the forensic evidence clinched the case against her . |
| 16 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 17 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 18 | That you had been to bed with all those — ’ |
| 19 | Yes , it was silly of me to forget that you had been to Scotland often — one of those mental slips which I am increasingly prone to . |
| 20 | They wo n't give me a minute 's peace tomorrow now that you 've been to the centre . ’ |
| 21 | Well show them that you 've been to the pictures |
| 22 | ‘ So you 've been to Woodbrook ? |
| 23 | The police do n't let you go , once you 've been to prison . |
| 24 | People look down on you , once you 've been to prison . |
| 25 | Once you 've been to Blackpool you 'll find that you want to keep returning again and again . |
| 26 | I says I know , you have n't been to see your team here , he says right once you 've been to Wembley the second time 's never as good it 's just that |
| 27 | ‘ After all that we 've been to each other over the years , Dane , darling … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ When once we 've been to a place , we 're liked . |
| 29 | But , as Mosley noted with satisfaction , these supporters were no more use to their new leader than they had been to the BUF . |
| 30 | er , she said that they 'd been to the said this man had been to her house . |