Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [be] to the " in BNC.

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1 What the district around Takrit was to Saddam , Oltenia has been to the Ceauşescus .
2 Veronica had been to the flat : was n't it possible she might have left something behind which Loretta could claim to have found ?
3 Angus had been to the town and he made his way back to his cottage along the shore .
4 The man leading the hunt for the killer , Det Chief Insp Barry Hill , said forensic experts from Wetherby had been to the scene .
5 Ruth had been to the shops or round at the flat of some girl child never previously mentioned .
6 He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back .
7 Swindon 's glory days in the FA Cup were a long time ago while Cambridge have been to the quarter finals two years running .
8 Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches .
9 So while Sutton had been frantically interviewing and trying to cope with real stories , Pilger had been to the Regent Street studio of Carrol , Dempsey and Thirkell , designers of the two-month-old Independent , described by the middle classes hoping for better papers as ‘ a good deed in a naughty world ’ .
10 Philip 's been to the library , ’ said his Mum .
11 In those days he had n't yet eaten shrimp , but Davide had been to the sea , often , and reported .
12 If Vecchi had been to the apartment and got what he wanted before killing Mahoney , there was no need for him to return for another look round .
13 And this was his chance to find out whether Emily had been to the shed before coming home .
14 Brothers Jim and Dixie have been to the fore during Maghery 's charge into the decider and Lurgan aces Clan na gael know that they must combat this dual threat if they are to succeed .
15 Tim Russon has been to the King 's Home ground to preview the match .
16 It had been midday Monday before she mentioned , in conversation with one of her regular customers , that MacQuillan had been to the Black Friar .
17 She and Sarah had been to the cinema the previous night and when the air raid warning sounded some people had left but most stayed .
18 This appeared to everyone on the ground to be a very harsh decision , as Lambourn had been to the ground twice in less than five minutes , the second occasion with a fine hard tackle that left him limping badly .
19 Wesley Smith has been to the company 's American headquarters to compile this special report .
20 Dexter had been to the hospital where Nowak still lay in a coma .
21 The point was that she — and the killer-were the only people who knew Puddephat had been to the flat at all .
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