Example sentences of "[be] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been to see La Boheme , at which Mr O'Hara had cried quite openly , and which Ellie had sat through dry-eyed , but with a breaking heart . |
| 2 | He said he 'd been to see Ben who was living on the Jonquil . |
| 3 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I guess that you have been to see Mrs Laura Lyons , ’ he said , and when I told him that he was right , he went on : ‘ When we put together everything that each of us has discovered , I expect we shall know almost everything about this case . ’ |
| 6 | But , after we 'd been to see Mrs Diamond , she was like you … . |
| 7 | But they can count the number of times they 've been to see Elvis the Musical ; 38 to date and it will be forty by the end of the week . |
| 8 | ‘ They say things like ‘ I 've just been to see Mum ’ so I must be still in it sort of , ’ she laughs . |
| 9 | He had already been to see Mussolini in the previous year and had been advised to call his New Party ‘ Fascist ’ but to play down its military organisation . |
| 10 | We 've just been to see Jean there at the chippy . |
| 11 | I said Antony , have you ever been to see Jonathan about the photographs ? |
| 12 | Already I was wishing I 'd never been to see Angy , even though I knew how much being estranged from his family had hurt him and it would mean a lot to him to get the ring back . ’ |
| 13 | Again they looked at each other in silence , and then he said very slowly , ‘ I 've been to see Beecham and Holden . |
| 14 | And then erm we ai n't even been to see Barbara and her and her new house and they only live |
| 15 | ‘ Well , if you 're sure you 're not suffering from any after-effects from the accident , I wo n't keep you any longer , ’ said Rachel with a brief smile , then as Jimmy stood up to leave she said casually , ‘ By the way , have you been to see Len ? ’ |
| 16 | And if the England boss had been to see QPR in recent weeks , he would have been impressed , especially with Sinton . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose he calls round after he 's been to see Rosa , ’ I said . |
| 18 | Well , I 've been to see Mr , and then I was off again to see him , and he said I was right . |
| 19 | Maura had been seeing Terry for nearly five months , and miraculously had managed to keep him a secret . |
| 20 | ‘ Been seeing Rose Hilaire ? ’ |
| 21 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 22 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's been seeing Jessie and ’ — she bowed her head — ‘ she 's going to have a baby . ’ |
| 24 | Then , and so then but I have n't been seeing Mrs . |
| 25 | Seems she 's been seeing Mr Marumba for a few months . |
| 26 | ‘ She has been seeing James recently but she still loves Marco , ’ said Mrs Butcher . |
| 27 | Mr Hartley , in his final year studying community arts at Newcastle , had been seeing Miss Harrison for about a year . |
| 28 | Joanne Morse , 18 , had been seeing Osborne weeks before the killing . |
| 29 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
| 30 | He had been seeing Molly on and off for about six months . |