Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] be to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The explicit arguments of which I know are to my mind hopeless . |
| 2 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been coming to games at the Manor since I was 10 … not every week like but since three seasons ago I have n't missed a match — I 've been to them all . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been to something like two dozen breweries in Belgium . |
| 5 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
| 6 | I 've been to it . |
| 7 | Yes I 've been to it . |
| 8 | Oh , Anne , how terrible I 've been to you ! |
| 9 | ‘ I go to flamenco classes , collect pictures of elaborate dance costumes and I 've been to lots of shows . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been to lots of places , but I 've never really been to visit countries and experience countries and , except for France , perhaps . |
| 11 | It 's the closest I 've been to my ideal live setup , really . |
| 12 | Yeah I 've been to me mam 's , I 've just had a cup of coffee and some fairy bun summat or other and ate these fairy buns . |
| 13 | I 've been to our Arthur 's today . |
| 14 | I 've been to your lovely new really smashing ! |
| 15 | It is the only castle I have been to which has a front doorbell , which you need to pull on if you want to see round since it is not automatically open to visitors . |
| 16 | ‘ How cruel you 've been to me , Catherine ! ’ he cried wildly . |
| 17 | You 've been to me once ! |
| 18 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 19 | Incidentally I do n't know if you 've been to Anyone been to Reservoir ? |
| 20 | I 'll tell Mama when I see her how good you have been to me . |
| 21 | Please God , I will be as true to you , as you have been to me ’ |
| 22 | They tell me you have been to her , |
| 23 | But i we 've been to I do n't give a damn what you 've And er of cour naturally enough you see . |
| 24 | I said we 've been to his house , Mick and me long time ago when he lived way and erm I said to Mick well have I got ta send this ? |
| 25 | We 're passing through on the way to Manchester and we 've been to your surgery they said you were out this way … described your car . |
| 26 | you know we 've been to your house a couple of times and |
| 27 | ‘ But I just want to make sure , and we are really close to it , that the agreement we have is to my liking . |
| 28 | They 've been to his little boy 's primary school , interviewed the teachers and headmistress and all the school friends and everything just trying to get a dirty story . |
| 29 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |