Example sentences of "have been to [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me . |
| 2 | The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ … there are many Ph Ds whose working career has borne little relation to the subject of their thesis , however potent the contribution of research training has been to their intellectual and practical development . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ … there are many Ph Ds whose working career has borne little relation to the subject of their thesis , however potent the contribution of research training has been to their intellectual and practical development . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Your lady , ’ he said warmly , ‘ has been to me the kindest of hostesses and gentlest of nurses . |
| 8 | He is a fair-minded bloke on occasions — at least he has been to me . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's amazing what a help Olivia has been to me . ’ |
| 10 | " Who shall say what the Soviet Union has been to us ? " , wrote Andre Gide in 1936 . |
| 11 | He would have been very satisfied to know what a comfort Steven has been to our family , how understanding , how supportive a friend in time of need , a valuable help to us in everything from fixing the car , taking over day to day decisions affecting the business/work/ Annabelle 's job , to just being there when we wanted advice and assistance . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact . |
| 14 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 15 | In her own way , she had been every bit as insulting to him as he 'd been to her . |
| 16 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I thought perhaps he 'd been to you and sort of were you interested and he he 'd come back . |
| 19 | It was plain to Lugh , as it should have been to everyone else , that Fergus — and whoever he took with him — was going to get into severe difficulties in the Far Future . |
| 20 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 21 | Angela Brickell would not have been to his taste . |
| 22 | All those lands have water , either acknowledged as lakes , or in winter pools throughout the poor , snipe-grass farmland ; how lovely the light must have been to his eyes . |
| 23 | She was able to let him go as he was now because she had clarified and confirmed what he had been to her . |
| 24 | How cruel he had been to her ! |
| 25 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 26 | Now he was sharp and alert and as curt and direct as Sandison had been to him the day before . |
| 27 | 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 : |
| 28 | He had been as anonymous to Aldhelm as Aldhelm had been to him . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |