Example sentences of "have been to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of my tutors have said that one of the most salutary of their experiences has been to work with a good adult class , which starts with no preconceptions , does n't necessarily have a qualification in mind , and ask the kind of questions which would tend to be asked say in Swift 's Gulliver Travels . |
| 2 | Central News South has been to South America to see at first hand the lives that Oxfam hopes to improve . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 1982 ) have shown that about three-quarters of the change has been to woodland , as shown in Figure 8.4 , and that this pattern is fairly geographically even , except for Dartmoor as shown in Table 8.4 . |
| 5 | The historical tendency , certainly since the end of the war , has been to de-skill this function by using NC machines . |
| 6 | But if you think things are bad now , just wait till the case has been to court . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | And Tim has been to nursery today . |
| 9 | She has been to school . ’ |
| 10 | The first generation approach to interface design within the UGIX project has been to prototype using Hypercard for the Apple Macintosh , where the Hypercard application ( complete with in-built communications software ) acts as a client to a host processor ‘ running the GIS application software . |
| 11 | Beasant has been to hell and back since he was publicly blamed by manager Ian Porterfield for Saturday 's 3-2 home defeat by Norwich , and was told he was finished at the club . |
| 12 | Once one has been to war , one has salt for the rest of one 's life . |
| 13 | Er they 'd been to chapel with them , been to school with them , worked in other places with them , and it ended like it did . |
| 14 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 15 | I suppose ( now ) they 'd been to bed together . |
| 16 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 17 | You 'd been to convent school as well , you said . |
| 18 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 19 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 20 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 22 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 23 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Sealed envelope with Mme Wyatt , ’ he replied , laying an uncharacteristic finger against his nose as if this was what he 'd been to spy-school for . |
| 26 | er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Yeah , she 'd been to college but she could n't get her car started , she had to get her dad to drive her in and pick her up . |
| 29 | Somebody asked me years after I 'd been to college if it was still there . |
| 30 | But bedtime was at the usual time and , though Francie returned very late , he was slightly drunk so he could not have been to church . |