Example sentences of "have been to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er right I need somebody out there who has n't done this before erm let's see we 've been to Ripon , been to Thirsk , erm been over to Scarborough with Dr Rock , North Allerton no I do n't like North Allerton well I mean I love North Allerton no no I want to go south I want to go Tadcaster way have we anybody down there ? |
| 2 | Ten years on and there is conjecture surrounding the possibility of the government of Sweden , and possibly that of The Netherlands , banning from participation in a sporting event anybody who has been to South Africa . |
| 3 | Simon Garrett has been to Suffolk , home of Greene King , to report on the battle of the brewers |
| 4 | ‘ Pion is only fourteen months old and already he has been to Alaska . ’ |
| 5 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 6 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
| 7 | A young woman from Lyons reported that she refuses to visit Paris without her friend who has been to Paris more often and understands the Parisians ' sign language better . |
| 8 | Father Pat Buckley , from Larne in Northern Ireland , has been to Scotland on three occasions to tie the knot for couples whom the church refuses to marry because one or both have been divorced . |
| 9 | For Alan , whose father Bill worked at Capenhurst for 24 years , has been to Russia where he was part of a group of four handicapped people on an expedition to climb the 1,800ft Mount Elbius in South Georgia . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , general manager resins at Silvertown , has been to Nippon Paint in Japan on a fact-finding visit . |
| 11 | He has been to Taiwan on two or three occasions and it was his idea that we come to New Zealand and develop our forward play ’ , said Lin . |
| 12 | Race horse trainer … easy life … you 've got to be joking … steeplechasing is all of life always has been to David Nicholson … he was born and bred … turned out and trained on the gallops at Prestbury … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 15 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 16 | And he was telling , you know erm it was the er Christmas thing , he was t saying he 'd been to France on a cheap ticket had n't he ? |
| 17 | She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds . |
| 18 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 19 | Yet they 'd been to Spain , Italy and Greece time after time , and surely it would have been natural for Isabelle to want to show off the country of her birth . |
| 20 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 21 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 22 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 23 | ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her . |
| 24 | Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour . |
| 25 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 26 | MI5 decided to do a trace on pretty well everybody who 'd been to Cambridge and Oxford during the thirties and showed communist sympathies . |
| 27 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd have told him all about the breastfeeding and bonding if the Morrisons had n't chosen that moment to arrive on the doorstep with Christopher and Katy who 'd been to Bertelli 's for their weekly dose of colourings , preservatives and sugar . |
| 29 | Did he tell you w he 'd been to Hill Hotel . |
| 30 | A long time ago , she 'd learned just how dear she 'd been to Ewan Famber : an experiment . |