Example sentences of "have [adv] be to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the celebration of the Friend , which sometimes takes the form of an apparent self-abasement by the Poet , has not been to everyone 's liking . |
| 2 | Whilst my message this time has mainly been to our Service team , we all have a part to play in improving the quality of our business . |
| 3 | Compassionate and relentless as God ( in whom she does not believe ) , she sends her creatures forth and calls them home , having ( like Thomas Hardy ) a love for funerals , although she has never been to one . |
| 4 | ‘ In fact she has never been to my home . |
| 5 | Victim Sue Howat joked : ‘ And before you ask , No , Mr Mellor has never been to my flat . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd never been to her place before . |
| 7 | Not only for now , but for everything ; all the help you 've always been to me . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps she had already been to one . |
| 9 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 10 | ‘ While I was with her , ’ I said , ‘ she told me what a wonderful husband you had always been to her — always , in every way , all your married life . ’ |
| 11 | Not that she thought Matey , or Dr Neil , would come poking around her room , but she was changing rapidly from the trusting and innocent girl she had once been to someone more cautious — she , Sally-Anne , more cautious ! |
| 12 | But we 've got a massive sackful of stuff and no one had left us a forwarding address and the landlady had n't been to us about any of them . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never been to one . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know , I 've never been to one before . |
| 15 | but I 've never been to it |
| 16 | I 've never been to it though |
| 17 | I mean we 've never been to it . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've never been to anything like this before , ’ Anabelle thought to herself . |
| 19 | Jumble sales are my passion , and I was amazed to hear that my friend had never been to one . |
| 20 | Mark had spent many idyllic summer days sailing and fishing with his brothers and his aunt on the beautiful river , but had never been to her winter cottage . |
| 21 | Sam Fawcett used to keep a stuffed one in a glass case , which is the nearest I have ever been to one . |
| 22 | I rarely go to her house and I do n't think she 's ever been to my flat , but our friendship is very much part of our working lives . |
| 23 | That 's all there 's ever been to it . |
| 24 | ‘ We have been so sensible , fair and reasonable with Lovell Homes that it 's probably been to our detriment . |
| 25 | Erm I do n't know I have n't been to them for ages now |