Example sentences of "i [verb] be to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and all I want is to type down there , cos that 's all I do |
| 2 | Like , I 'd been to church , been to Sunday School , so I knew all the stuff in the Bible , but I guess I needed to envisage it … see it , in my own terms . ’ |
| 3 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 4 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 5 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 6 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 7 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 9 | Somebody asked me years after I 'd been to college if it was still there . |
| 10 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 11 | Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour . |
| 12 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 13 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 14 | I HAD been to Lourdes before . |
| 15 | I had been to Balsall Heath Health Centre on Edward Rd. with the NCT so we went there and all the other H.C.s and asked the Health Visitors . |
| 16 | I had been to church , but I did n't tell her . |
| 17 | ‘ The night before we were arrested , I had been to dinner with Nick Wells , and I asked him if he had heard anything , and he said : ‘ No , it 's all water under the bridge , I suppose . ’ |
| 18 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 19 | I had been to Mr Grover for a complete check-up . |
| 20 | So I 've been to Rome and places like that . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's ages since I 've been to Hyde Park . |
| 22 | ‘ As this is the first time I 've been to Ca ’ del Leone , the answer must be no . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been to Germany and Austria skiing , I 've been to , er we went to Italy but I was , you know , I was quite a bit younger and it was n't for very long . |
| 24 | But if the police learn I 've been to America , they 'll ask why . |
| 25 | I 've always been skiing with my parents , so I 've been to America to visit friends , and that 's not been like sightseeing , or something , and I just have n't been anywhere , and erm , I mean , I suppose I 've been to a lot more countries than a lot of people who 've , you know , there 's a lot of people who have n't |
| 26 | ‘ Did Mrs Fairfax tell you I 've been to London ? ’ he asked . |
| 27 | Is it not supposed to be pussy cat , pussy cat where have you been , I 've been to London to see the queen ? |
| 28 | Pussy cat , pussy cat where have you been , I 've been to London to visit the king , pussy cat , pussy cat what were you there , I frightened a little mouse under the chair |
| 29 | I 've been to London . |
| 30 | I 've been to Newark on a Friday night and stood in a line with others on a night shift at a w wooden hut in the yard whilst a clerk from the pay office came to meet us , the day shift finishing at er , say five o'clock . |