Example sentences of "been to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In winter months he enjoys snow-skiing — he has recently been to Mirabel , France . |
| 2 | I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to . |
| 3 | He had asked the young men if they had been to Germany — knowing they had not . |
| 4 | Most of you wo n't remember the time , and I certainly do n't , some of you will , you 'll be familiar with the er , healing accounts , seeing pictures on , er either in magazines or on the television news , in in old news reels , of that time when Neville Chamberlain stepped out of an aeroplane , and he 's just been to Germany and , and had a meeting with Hitler . |
| 5 | I 've been to Germany and Austria skiing , I 've been to , er we went to Italy but I was , you know , I was quite a bit younger and it was n't for very long . |
| 6 | The Western movie had been to America , the new promised land , what the Old Testament and its heroes — Abraham , Moses , Samson , Saul and David — had been in Biblical times . |
| 7 | ‘ But I have just been to America , where England will play a big tournament next summer against the US , Brazil and Germany . |
| 8 | But if the police learn I 've been to America , they 'll ask why . |
| 9 | He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off … |
| 10 | I 've always been skiing with my parents , so I 've been to America to visit friends , and that 's not been like sightseeing , or something , and I just have n't been anywhere , and erm , I mean , I suppose I 've been to a lot more countries than a lot of people who 've , you know , there 's a lot of people who have n't |
| 11 | ‘ You ever been to sea ? |
| 12 | His magnificent gifts of drawing — not exaggerating — character and of getting an atmosphere have so worked that few of us have not been to sea in frigates before the age of eighteen and come in some way in contact with non-comfortable men and women . |
| 13 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 14 | Mr Trelawney had been to sea before and knew enough to be useful , and one of the men , Israel Hands , was a careful and experienced seaman who was able to help with almost anything . |
| 15 | Like many marine painters he had never been to sea . |
| 16 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 17 | I been to New York only a short while back . ’ |
| 18 | Anyway , you 've never been to New York . |
| 19 | Have you been to New York recently ? |
| 20 | Rainbow has n't been to Goldie 's house in years . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's ages since I 've been to Hyde Park . |
| 22 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 23 | Sure , he 's been to Arequipa ( two hundred kilometres away ) . |
| 24 | I 've been to Stanford Hall where they have you in a circle but at least , I think , wh however you sit , you must have a president in front of you in a chair and someone to keep a little bit of order . |
| 25 | ‘ You have been to Pepe 's last Saturday ? ’ |
| 26 | Meanwhile , general manager resins at Silvertown , has been to Nippon Paint in Japan on a fact-finding visit . |
| 27 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 28 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been to Kinghorn Manor , ’ Corbett continued . |
| 30 | This chapter seeks to distinguish arbitration from references to experts by considering : ( 1 ) confusion between whether references have been to experts or arbitrators ( 15.2 ) ; ( 2 ) how the court interprets express words in the contract about a referee 's status ( 15.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the guidelines for assessing the referee 's status ( 15.4 – 15.9 ) ; ( 4 ) the procedural differences between arbitrations and references to experts ( 15.10 ) ; ( 5 ) the different consequences of an expert 's decision and an arbitration award ( 15.11 ) . |