Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Then you must have been to Paris before . " |
| 2 | You must have been to ‘ un cafe ’ , or to ‘ le cinema ’ , or watched ‘ le sport ’ on ‘ la têlêvision ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to think who might have been to Edouard 's flat . |
| 4 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 5 | ‘ Between us we must have been to every bar within a mile radius of Times Square . |
| 6 | They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’ |
| 7 | The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman . |
| 8 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |
| 9 | It was plain to Lugh , as it should have been to everyone else , that Fergus — and whoever he took with him — was going to get into severe difficulties in the Far Future . |
| 10 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 11 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 12 | I mean it was a report it must have been to the member authorities , was it a progress report or deliberations ? |
| 13 | I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party |
| 14 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 15 | He spoke and evidently felt strongly of the degradation that it would have been to the parry to have elected a leader by secret ballot . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ said McAllister in her turn , face white , and trembling as though to lose her post would be the tragedy which it would have been to the servant she was pretending to be . |
| 17 | My Troop — 10th Leith ( Balfour Melville ) — frequently marched with the rest of the Edinburgh District Scouts and I found the flag holster a great comfort — as it would have been to " Sister Anna " — since , in the song , she only had a " banner-carrying navel " as I recall . |
| 18 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |