Example sentences of "[be] see [art] " in BNC.
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1 | All of us that is except uncle Eugenio , who had never been to see a film , saying that it was a fraud , all illusion , and that when the lights went up and all the characters disappeared the screen was no more than a rag . |
2 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
3 | He had been to see a palmist and shown him her photo . |
4 | Principally the visit had been to see a senior boy with lifelong problems who had suddenly become unmanageable and would have to be admitted to an asylum , but while there he had been asked to assess Anna Beckett , a child who had moved him strangely . |
5 | " Have you been to see a doctor ? " |
6 | Puts them on notice that you 've been to see a solicitor . |
7 | and she said oh , she said I 've been to see a friend |
8 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
9 | She had been to see the inspector in charge of her father 's murder case . |
10 | ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision . |
11 | ‘ I 've been to see the dog , ’ Anabelle replied , and told him about taking away the dog 's food . |
12 | The aim , then , has been to see the problem afresh , and a first reformulation of it was offered in Chapter iii . |
13 | By the time you read this ( Merry Chrimbo , by the way ! ) we will have held a social evening to welcome our new members on the 1st October , we will have been to see the chilling drama ‘ The Woman in Black ’ at the Fortune Theatre on the 19th November and we will have had Christmas drinks on the 12th December . |
14 | On one occasion after they had been to see the film Odd Man Out , thick fog prevented Bobby returning home to Blackheath . |
15 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
16 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
17 | ‘ I 've been to see the family ; I 've kept away until now … |
18 | He remembered the last time he had been to see the dentist . |
19 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
20 | ‘ You have been to see the corpse ? ’ she asked . |
21 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |
22 | Princess Anne has been to see the inmates at work … behind bars . |
23 | Two million people have been to see the film Jurassic Park since it was released in British cinemas just five days ago . |
24 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
25 | It is also likely that my friend will , at some point , have been to see the SUSA Welfare Officer and obtained help with a late grant , or received advice on one of a whole host of student problems from harassment to housing . |
26 | I 've been to see the magician said Tim . |
27 | 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 |
28 | oh , he said , that 'd be very interesting and he 'd just been to see the and I said how is she ? |
29 | If the patient has been seeing a physiotherapist privately , it still may be necessary to involve a second , specialist physiotherapist , if the patient stops progressing . |
30 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |