Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have been 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 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 3 | No relation and it 's not the fella who 's been to Memphis Tennessee to see Graceland either . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What is remarkable is how little political opposition there has been to the programme to date . |
| 6 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 7 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 8 | You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 11 | He gives terrible parties up there — I know a girl who 's been to them . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The other place I 've been to is Thailand , where prostitution is blatantly up-front and hard to avoid . |
| 15 | It was the first multi-cultural CPRW meeting I have been to — most refreshing ! |
| 16 | Any conference she 'd been to , everyone wound up in her room long after midnight , playing poker and spouting Bacardi bullshit , wine-bottle wisdom . |
| 17 | Er , the Magistrate 's Court I 've been to twice . |
| 18 | A young woman from Lyons reported that she refuses to visit Paris without her friend who has been to Paris more often and understands the Parisians ' sign language better . |
| 19 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 20 | Alain did not know what a shock it had been to be dragged up those stairs and to find a room like a small time capsule , the very essence of the man she had not known still lingering there . |
| 21 | Mark 's face brightened for he remembered who Miss Broome was — a nice-looking youngish woman who had been to church the last two or three Sundays . |
| 22 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
| 23 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 24 | The only " reason " given by Anderson — " I changed my mind " ( p. 87 ) — clearly violates the maxim of quantity in providing too little information , and his excuse , that he " did n't realize it mattered " , violates the maxim of quality because , being a Cambridge don who has been to a number of overseas conferences , he will be well aware of the procedures involved . |
| 25 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 26 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 27 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 28 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 29 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 30 | Since joining the BDDA he had been to every one of its Congresses and his inclusion as third member of this select trio was extremely popular . |