Example sentences of "he have [adv] been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has n't been to the baths for months . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But … he has n't been to the cottage to see Anna . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't know ; he has n't been to the factory since I 've been here . ’ |
| 4 | He has n't been to bed yet . |
| 5 | Relations between Egypt and Libya have been erratic since Colonel Gaddafi seized power 20 years ago , and he has not been to Egypt since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 6 | In winter months he enjoys snow-skiing — he has recently been to Mirabel , France . |
| 7 | And he has never been to England before . ’ |
| 8 | Also Parker confesses that he has never been to one of Elvis ' recording sessions : ‘ That 's his job — mine 's getting him as much money as I can . ’ |
| 9 | He has actually been to the actual America — and come back . |
| 10 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 11 | It was n't far from where he lived , just a stop further on the tube , but he 'd not been to the area before . |
| 12 | Poor darling , he 'd probably been to hell and back as well last night . |
| 13 | He 'd never been to the barn . |
| 14 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 15 | One after the other was called to report why he had not been to the police court for a long period , and threatened that if he did not do more work in the future he would lose pay . |
| 16 | Most attention focuses here on shifts in Labour policy , on armaments and on the EC , to which may also be added another less publicised shift , namely on attitudes to the US : when Foot became leader of the Labour Party in 1979 , he had not been to Washington since the 1940s ; Kinnock and his associates were frequent , and informed , visitors . |
| 17 | He was fully dressed , his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all . |
| 18 | He ate and drank simply and , although he enjoyed the theatre , he had not been to a play for twenty years . |
| 19 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 20 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 21 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 22 | He had just been to the Palace to kiss hands as Prime Minister for the second time . |
| 23 | He perceived that he was ‘ up against ’ the position of having to carry on his life not as an emotion , but as a scientific game ; that he was committed by circumstances to novel writing as a regular trade , as much as he had formerly been to architecture ; and that hence he would , he deemed , have to look for material in manners — in ordinary social and fashionable life as the other novelists did . |
| 24 | He had already been to quite a number of shows where he competed in halter classes ; but this wag the first occasion where he was ridden in a saddle class . |
| 25 | McQueen , a genuine Highlander , kept the inn ( such as it was ) at Anoch and he brought Johnson the closest he had yet been to the controversies of the recent Stuart cause . |
| 26 | He had n't been to London in years , and did n't wish to . |
| 27 | He had n't been to the Martins ' for lunch since Antoinette died . |
| 28 | Could any man believe he had the right to send another to his death simply because he had once been to gaol ? |
| 29 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 30 | He also said he had never been to St Kitts . |