Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did n't Tumbleweed say he 'd been to the fair before ? |
| 2 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 3 | When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition . |
| 4 | My father once wrote after he had been to the French Legation to dine : " A forty-minute ride across two ravines and a swamp , then a shocking road up to the house on a moonless night is really no fun . " |
| 5 | He had been to the Top Rank entertainment centre in Reading when all the scientists had gathered one evening to formulate a demand for a 40 per cent pay rise . |
| 6 | He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off … |
| 7 | He 's been to the last 2 olympics , skied in world cups , faced the steepest and fastest of runs . |