Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 4 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 5 | She and Havvie had been to a flower show . |
| 6 | Arthur and Fred had been to school together . |
| 7 | He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back . |
| 8 | In the past nine years , he says , he and Kinnock have been to hell and back together but ( unless Sisyphus intrude these columns again ) paradise now seems tantalisingly close . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And Tim has been to nursery today . |
| 11 | My top-floor neighbours were a couple called Christina and Barry Jackson , and Barry had been to school with David and George Underwood in Bromley , and being a neighbour , I was quite friendly with these two . |