Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [noun prp] " 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | We 've just been to see Jean there at the chippy . |
| 10 | I said Antony , have you ever been to see Jonathan about the photographs ? |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Again they looked at each other in silence , and then he said very slowly , ‘ I 've been to see Beecham and Holden . |
| 13 | And then erm we ai n't even been to see Barbara and her and her new house and they only live |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | And if the England boss had been to see QPR in recent weeks , he would have been impressed , especially with Sinton . |
| 16 | Well , I 've been to see Mr , and then I was off again to see him , and he said I was right . |
| 17 | Both events are to promote Winch 's fundraising efforts for the BBC 's annual Children in Need TV appeal . |
| 18 | And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial , devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for . |
| 19 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 20 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 21 | MACCLESFIELD manager Peter Wragg knows his non-Leaguers have one major task if they are to banish Stockport County from the Cup this afternoon — stop Kevin Francis . |
| 22 | RAILWAY managers who hope to mount a buy-out for the ScotRail franchise after privatisation are to meet John MacGregor , the Transport Secretary , in Glasgow tonight . |
| 23 | PUPILS at an Edinburgh school once threatened with closure , are to meet Prince Charles . |
| 24 | Indeed , Beccaria 's classical model , at least as far as the form and content of actual penal treatments are concerned , has never really been tried — if we are to accept Foucault 's version of events . |
| 25 | If we are to find Mr. Stavanger we shall need your help . " |
| 26 | If we are to know Jesus and his teaching , then , we must turn to the New Testament , to the testimony of those he himself chose and trusted to pass on his teaching . |
| 27 | How lucky she had been to meet Violet , but was n't that the story of her life ? |
| 28 | Have you been to woodcraft Sime ? |
| 29 | The second main line has been to tar Major as ‘ Son of Thatcher ’ . |
| 30 | The three foreign ministers of the Arab League committee on Lebanon are to visit Damascus today at the start of a new drive to end the crisis caused by Gen Aoun 's defiance . |