Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We was in this railway station and Marie had just been to the dentist . |
| 2 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 3 | Jane had never been to the aerodrome before — not actually past the guardroom and through the gates — and she had n't known what to expect that night . |
| 4 | Maggie had never been to the St Andrew 's Halls , and was looking forward to it . |
| 5 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 6 | The Shah had repeatedly been to American during the last thirty years. ; he had been welcomed with full honours as not only an important chief of state by also a vital ally by every single president since Harry Truman . |
| 7 | The age of the Church to which Jesus looked forward is to be marked by evangelism and the Spirit . |
| 8 | Fran had only been to the luxurious floating restaurant a couple of times , but knew from experience that the food was excellent and very expensive . |
| 9 | Joseph had subsequently been to the villa on the Cap and talked about a show in New York . |
| 10 | Members of the BSS UK have recently been to Belgium to select another importation of 60 sheep ; all are ordered for pedigree flocks in Britain . |
| 11 | Victim Sue Howat joked : ‘ And before you ask , No , Mr Mellor has never been to my flat . ’ |
| 12 | Sorge had never been to Langley before . |
| 13 | It was the most marvellous party Constance had ever been to . |
| 14 | THE controversial film Cathy Come Home is to be screened on British television for the first time in 17 years in as attempt to highlight the plight of the homeless . |
| 15 | International Motaung has already been to Hillsborough and Bramall Lane and will have trials with West Ham and Millwall . |
| 16 | Robertson had once been to Stirling Polytechnic . |
| 17 | Edouard had never been to north Africa ; he was unprepared for the beauty of Algiers itself , and the magnificence of the surrounding country , with its rugged sunburned hills , its narrow winding roads which would suddenly open up on views of a vivid blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 18 | Should I tell her here and now that Ewen Mackay had already been to the cottage ? |
| 19 | Susie had never been to church . |
| 20 | Neither church nor hotel authorities could accommodate canines and Luke had never been to kennels . |
| 21 | Clare had just been to the lavatory , which , she claimed , was a significant experience . |