Example sentences of "be to [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the response to such a command could be to hand up some dictionary definition of a bar as a drinking place . |
| 2 | ‘ So while getting a document or computer disk from , say , London to Indonesia can take up to three days by post or courier , with electronic mail a valid print-out will be to hand in next to no time . |
| 3 | ‘ You have been to Arrancay today , I suppose . |
| 4 | I HAD been to Lourdes before . |
| 5 | ‘ Have n't you been to bed yet ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't been to bed yet , ’ he said , not taking the question any way at all . |
| 7 | Dad has n't been to bed yet Carla . |
| 8 | He has n't been to bed yet . |
| 9 | Dad has n't been to bed yet . |
| 10 | I suppose ( now ) they 'd been to bed together . |
| 11 | If you have n't been to Greece before , Corfu is the perfect place to start . |
| 12 | And Tim has been to nursery today . |
| 13 | they were just like the old fashioned kind and er we 've never been to Harrendle since and whenever I get to Harrendle I 'd get some more sausages . |
| 14 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 15 | Yes , but I have n't been to work today . |
| 16 | she 's only been to work once since Christmas , she went erm last Friday |
| 17 | To conclude , the fact that there has been to date remarkably little progress towards an independent discipline of material culture is due , at least in part , to the particular history of that field within anthropology . |
| 18 | I 've never been to Venice before , I can prove it , nor have I met your father . |
| 19 | She had hoped to talk to him , to suggest that he ring Maureen , who knew quite well that her niece had never been to Venice before . |
| 20 | I 've been to Calais before . |
| 21 | Erika had been to church before : with Omi , once on her own out of curiosity , and once with the F.G.Y. as a prelude to a discussion on Modern Superstitions . |
| 22 | I , I , I 've been to church twice |
| 23 | They have been to church once , for Nan Arthur 's funeral , and all they remember is the smell of dusty curtains and a dead mouse under the pews . |
| 24 | Though , of course , I 've been to Italy before . ’ |
| 25 | The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never been to Northumberland before , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 27 | Yes , it was silly of me to forget that you had been to Scotland often — one of those mental slips which I am increasingly prone to . |
| 28 | You 've been to Moila before ? ’ |
| 29 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 30 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |