Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be to " in BNC.
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| 31 | She said to John , have you ever been to Tenerife ? |
| 32 | You ever been to Westbury Castle |
| 33 | Have you ever been to the pictures in that po , in erm oh what do you call the ? |
| 34 | is that erm , have you ever been to it where there 's like a ledge up here you know where you can ski round slowly down the mountain and then there 's a part here and then there 's a run going down there like that sort of thing . |
| 35 | Have you ever been to his home ? |
| 36 | Have you ever been to fourth base ? |
| 37 | ‘ I asked if you also were to be told but mama said nay — you are younger than myself , she said , and are unlikely to wed for some time . |
| 38 | From there she writes that she also is to be involved in classes for the elderly . |
| 39 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 40 | Me : ‘ I told you there were to be no bug-eyed monsters in Doctor Who . ’ |
| 41 | Check that you know who else is to be present , anticipate what ‘ hidden agendas– they may have and be sure that you know the level of formality . |
| 42 | ‘ Have you never been to school ? ’ |
| 43 | At the next meeting one member brought in her ‘ mistake ’ ( how grateful we always are to knitters who share ‘ mistakes ’ . |
| 44 | On the other hand , they were far more sensitive than we now are to the instinctive or innate bases of human social behaviour . |
| 45 | Marxists invoke ‘ History ’ as a ‘ transcendent signified ’ , the ultimate in terms of which everything else is to be explained ; but there are many histories , not one , and we choose those which suit us . |
| 46 | But there certainly was to us , you bastard . |
| 47 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 48 | All that was left to her now was to not let him know just how much he had hurt her . |
| 49 | Students of literature , traditionally resentful as they often are to be told they might be engaged in anything severely useful , found they could sell their talents abroad as teachers , and had to tolerate the uncomfortably realistic view that the nation might recover through the teaching of English some small part of the wealth it had lost on technical adventures like building and running Concorde . |
| 50 | At the same time Mandela 's remarks indicate that he , too , recognises the need to involve all the parties in the democracy negotiations if they really are to be democratic . |
| 51 | Someone had told them there was to be a memorial service for Evangeline Booth that evening in the Regent Hall , which had once been a skating rink . |
| 52 | Presumably he had become as immune to disgust as he obviously was to the sweet-sour smell of his mortuary . |
| 53 | He purchased of me — the copies left on my hands — and he alone is to be applied to on the point you wish answered . ’ |
| 54 | Had he ever been to the Foinmen before ? |
| 55 | Presumably this was important to him ( it always was to me and I can fully understand this ) for he wrote the route up in the new routes books asking how others would feel if he subsequently went back and placed a single bolt runner to protect the route . |
| 56 | Well it probably was to be expected really under the circumstances . |
| 57 | I mean the way we look at it really is to group villages together so perhaps they 'll have more cover if they 've got two or three specials who work different hours if they have a vehicle they can have access to , provide the cover there . |
| 58 | Ultimately , it too was to be opposed , on the same grounds . |
| 59 | ‘ What exactly is to be our position ? ’ |
| 60 | This is a scaled-down version of what originally was to be an ambitious orbiting craft that would build up a picture of the planet 's surface using radar . |