Example sentences of "he have [been] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith was sitting stunned , with her glasses still in her hand , when a minute later Jimmy rushed in with the papers he 'd been to collect . |
| 2 | Kenneth came across it while returning from a far-flung artist 's studio where he 'd been to purchase a John Miller watercolour for my birthday . |
| 3 | He told the hearing that the night before the body was found , he 'd been to visit Hawkins with another man Michael Talbot . |
| 4 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 5 | He said that an old friend was in St Mary 's Hospital and he 'd been to see him . |
| 6 | He 'd nothing to say to her ; he did n't even plan to tell her that he 'd been to see her . |
| 7 | He said he 'd been to see Ben who was living on the Jonquil . |
| 8 | Robert said he 'd been to see you in Brno recently ; hope it was a good weekend . |
| 9 | He 'd been to see his girlfriend in Southampton and was on his way to see his parents in Sheffield . |
| 10 | and quite a lot of the nurses used to walk their nurses , I mean they 're er war trained and unarmed combat and they 're wardens , let's face it , they 're not nurses , and one of them was saying to me , oh we had a fellow in the other day , he 'd , he 'd a , fallen up the police stations steps I think erm , he said that he 'd been to see the do gooders , he had this interview |
| 11 | ‘ Glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago ’ , comments the narrator ; and his comment shows that the ancient smith was not glad , did not know , was condemned to defeat and death and oblivion in the barrows . |
| 12 | What a fool he had been to waste so much time being " poetic " and not eating . |
| 13 | When Ven drew up outside her hotel , Fabia went on to realise just how kind he had been to give up so much of his time . |
| 14 | He had been to see a palmist and shown him her photo . |
| 15 | Ludens was glad he had been to see Franca and felt sure , as he sat in another taxi bound for Victoria , that she had understood why , and in what frame of mind , he had come . |
| 16 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |
| 17 | Joni records that , at their first meeting , ‘ after an endless stream of compliments on the execution of my work ’ , Berenson , who had purchased from Torrini an ‘ Alberto Aringhieri in prayer ’ ( fig.2 ) inspired by Pinturicchio 's celebrated fresco in Siena cathedral , ‘ singled out the Aringhieri for special praise , saying that he found it more skilfully done even than the original , which he had been to see and examined just before coming to my studio ’ . |
| 18 | He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive . |
| 19 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 20 | He remembered the last time he had been to see the dentist . |
| 21 | Yet he had been to blame . |
| 22 | Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it . |
| 23 | As he entered the study , Stephen reflected on how fortunate he had been to obtain this man 's services . |
| 24 | Fagin had told Oliver how ungrateful he had been to run away . |
| 25 | Herod had arrested John because John kept reminding Herod of how wrong he had been to marry Herodias , who was already married to Herod 's brother Philip . |
| 26 | Had the worm understood how lucky he had been to share his bed with two such strong women ? |
| 27 | With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar . |
| 28 | ‘ But they wo n't be able to get word out that he 's been to see them . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose he calls round after he 's been to see Rosa , ’ I said . |
| 30 | Yeah he 's been to see him . |