Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have been [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again . |
| 2 | I 'll tell you a lovely story when we had the Queen at the day before when we had had the dress rehearsal I 'd been out to erm London to pick erm up an old lady who 's now dead , who very seldom got out and was pretty well house-bound to come and see the rehearsal as a little Sunday treat |
| 3 | One spring evening we had been out to dinner and came back to find Clare bounding downstairs with excitement . |
| 4 | In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch . |
| 5 | Although I did n't , he he , I did n't have time to ask him what the hell he 'd been up to . |
| 6 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
| 7 | It was also first time she had been back to Earth since being drafted into Spacefleet , escaping , and running for the stars in a clapped-out old trading ship owned by a clapped-out old trader . |
| 8 | For many this was the first time they 'd been back to Parham in thirty six years . |
| 9 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |