Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 2 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 3 | None of my friends have children and all the mother-and-toddler groups I have been to are full of older mums . |
| 4 | Well , to be fair , the A G M's I 've been to , they do influence some of |
| 5 | and it being full of , of animals , most of them nasty animals , that would frighten you , like snakes and squirrels , I do n't know why squirrels , and , and like I had a picture in my mind , I ca n't remember whether it was the swimming baths I 'd been to , or whatever , like you know how they , quite often they have little ramps , or maybe they do n't , but the ones I 'd been to had ramps , stairs going up to them or whatever , |
| 6 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 7 | One of the happiest parties I have been to for a long while was the one at Claridge 's given by Mr and Mrs John Newman , to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Miss Henrietta Newman to the Earl of Caledon , son of the late Earl of Caledon and the late Mrs Denis Alexander . |
| 8 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 9 | When asked to talk through her technique , she appears reticent , suggesting that it is a little too simplistic and old-fashioned , perhaps too naive for those readers who have been to art school . |
| 10 | When asked to talk through her technique , she appears reticent , suggesting that it is a little too simplistic and old-fashioned , perhaps too naive for those readers who have been to art school . |
| 11 | Readers who have been to one of my knit-club talks , will remember the prototype shown there which I referred to as the ‘ Knit-club Jumper ’ , because of the ease of making the basic jumper look different at each club meeting , just by changing the collar ! |
| 12 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , sociologists and anthropologists , including Émile Durkheim , were interested in the reports of travellers and missionaries who had been to parts of Australasia . |
| 13 | No relation and it 's not the fella who 's been to Memphis Tennessee to see Graceland either . |
| 14 | At the other Delhi parties we had been to — mostly boring official events — it had been a struggle to avoid getting cornered by some grey under-secretary from the Ministry of Fertilizer Distribution . |
| 15 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |
| 16 | What is remarkable is how little political opposition there has been to the programme to date . |
| 17 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
| 18 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 19 | To the urban dweller , all woods look the same , but in landscape terms we must be careful to distinguish between the wildwood ( the remnant or successor of the natural or semi-natural woodland of Britain — which certainly does not exist anywhere today and probably has not since the Roman period ) and woods which have been to a greater or lesser degree managed for the production of timber and wood ( Fig. 63 ) . |
| 20 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 21 | My biggest fantasy I think was to be a sort of assistant , a nurse , holding Boy 's hand while O worked on him . |
| 22 | You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me . |
| 23 | And this was the day to do it the Women of the North lunch in Harrogate , like the Woman of the Year in London ‘ only much friendlier and more fun ’ according to a lady who 'd been to both . |
| 24 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 25 | He gives terrible parties up there — I know a girl who 's been to them . |
| 26 | But heal they do as we have seen from those lines who have been to the brink demonstrate . |
| 27 | A Golders Green police spokesman said : ‘ He seemed to be obsessed with her and is known to the police as a pest who has been to court . ’ |
| 28 | Write a report of between 1000 and 1500 words on your last period of work experience with particular emphasis on the benefit it has been to you . |
| 29 | The other place I 've been to is Thailand , where prostitution is blatantly up-front and hard to avoid . |
| 30 | It was the first multi-cultural CPRW meeting I have been to — most refreshing ! |