Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Er the reason want referring because has n't commenced it 's considered er view and the last thing we want is to be in business actually doing is enclosing on St Albans and anything that St Albans does n't actually want . |
| 4 | What we want is to be working here . |
| 5 | Several of them enquired if we 'd been to the races ( we all had ) and had backed the winner ( no , we had n't ) . |
| 6 | 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 ’ ? |
| 7 | That evening , Abu Salim came to chain Brian and me up after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 8 | We 'd hoped that such irritations were behind us , but then they started taking toothpaste and soap away from us after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 9 | We 'd been to a party with Nancy and Frank . |
| 10 | He mentioned old times , the Army , you know , places we 'd been to . |
| 11 | I remember wandering with Donald somewhere in the East End after we 'd been to the Whitechapel and we saw a group of teddies standing round two middle-aged Indians . |
| 12 | And how did you know we 'd been to Nice ? ’ |
| 13 | All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face . |
| 14 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | We will not normally discuss the technology out of which the architectures that we describe are to be implemented . |
| 17 | Another outing we enjoyed was to Mayell 's Chocolate Factory , where for $2 you can tour the factory and eat as many of the products as you want . |
| 18 | They 've they 've sent , we have a bank account , the first thing we did was to o This is the steering committee . |
| 19 | The residue one is a problem as well Chairman , because when we had the sheep dipping campaigns , one of the things that we did was to , to just carry out some very quick rough checks at markets in this county to see whether in fact sheep were being withheld from slaughter sale for the required period . |
| 20 | ‘ After all , we 've been to Charteris 's house . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been to St Petersburg already , where you were kidnapped from . |
| 22 | Yeah bear i I mean both of us sitting here , we 've been to social functions on this areas |
| 23 | We 're passing through on the way to Manchester and we 've been to your surgery they said you were out this way … described your car . |
| 24 | We 've been to the Canary Islands , and was er Bulgaria last year , I 've been to Yugoslavia , |
| 25 | Now we 've been to these meetings , and there 's a lot of airy-fairy words about yes we support parishes . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been to church . ’ |
| 27 | After all we 've been to one another in the past … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ After all that we 've been to each other over the years , Dane , darling … ’ |
| 29 | We 've been to the Dogs ! |
| 30 | ‘ When once we 've been to a place , we 're liked . |