Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How easy it had been to mislead him , as he produced his apologetic arguments and justifications . |
| 2 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 3 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 4 | She 's supportable at home , but she can never remember that people have been to see her , so she 's always lonely . ’ |
| 5 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
| 6 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |
| 7 | She had said that Isobel had been to see her , and that she , Anna had been horrible to her . |
| 8 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 9 | He 'd nothing to say to her ; he did n't even plan to tell her that he 'd been to see her . |
| 10 | ‘ And for all we know Ma might realise that she has n't been to see her . ’ |
| 11 | She told Anne that Aunt Carrie had been to see her . |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't been to see her yet . |
| 13 | I 've been to see her as well as the other two women . |
| 14 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 15 | It was Lou — frantic , almost incoherent , reporting that Rick had vanished along with his passport , that the police had been to see her and had asked hundreds of questions . |
| 16 | I think the police should have been to see her within hours and not waited four years to see her . ’ |
| 17 | Hundreds of people have been to see her . |
| 18 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |
| 19 | ( Why had n't the police been to see her ? |
| 20 | Well let's go ask and roundabout and go and see if there 's ah any cheap things cos we 've been to see her again and |
| 21 | He has never been to see me . |
| 22 | And yes , the youth Diniz Vasquez has been to see me . |
| 23 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 24 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 25 | The police have been to see me . ’ |
| 26 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 27 | All sorts of people have been questioning me — the health and safety lot , the union , management — you name it , they 've been to see me . ’ |
| 28 | Er the N F U representative for Nottinghamshire , based in Stanford has been to see me about it |
| 29 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 30 | ‘ But they wo n't be able to get word out that he 's been to see them . ’ |