Example sentences of "have been to [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me .
2 She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands .
3 In her heart she thought : Kind as she has been to me , and much as I respect her , your wife , my lord , is the last lady living to whom I am likely to apply .
4 ‘ Your lady , ’ he said warmly , ‘ has been to me the kindest of hostesses and gentlest of nurses .
5 He is a fair-minded bloke on occasions — at least he has been to me .
6 ‘ It 's amazing what a help Olivia has been to me . ’
7 " Who shall say what the Soviet Union has been to us ? " , wrote Andre Gide in 1936 .
8 Write a report of between 1000 and 1500 words on your last period of work experience with particular emphasis on the benefit it has been to you .
9 He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half .
10 In her own way , she had been every bit as insulting to him as he 'd been to her .
11 He I I 'd been to them over a a period of about two years erm with all sorts o of different problems and in the end he said , You know I can increase your drugs but that wo n't help .
12 I thought perhaps he 'd been to you and sort of were you interested and he he 'd come back .
13 She was able to let him go as he was now because she had clarified and confirmed what he had been to her .
14 How cruel he had been to her !
15 Now he was sharp and alert and as curt and direct as Sandison had been to him the day before .
16 To Tom Poole that day , Coleridge wrote a farewell letter , setting down his sense of all that Poole had been to him since the beginning of their friendship more than four years earlier :
17 He had been as anonymous to Aldhelm as Aldhelm had been to him .
18 He stressed first how important it had been to him to get to know Wagner 's philosophy of music and that his own " Dionysiac Philosophy " reflected that debt .
19 He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father .
20 ‘ How cruel you 've been to me , Catherine ! ’ he cried wildly .
21 You 've been to me once !
22 ‘ I 've been coming to games at the Manor since I was 10 … not every week like but since three seasons ago I have n't missed a match — I 've been to them all .
23 er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times
24 But i we 've been to I do n't give a damn what you 've And er of cour naturally enough you see .
25 I 've been to it .
26 Yes I 've been to it .
27 Oh , Anne , how terrible I 've been to you !
28 I 'll tell Mama when I see her how good you have been to me .
29 Please God , I will be as true to you , as you have been to me
30 They tell me you have been to her ,
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