Example sentences of "[been] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been to the Over-Sixties Club where they have some very good concerts and I go to services at Cotherstone Methodist Chapel whenever I can . |
| 2 | The three sets which have not been to the Joint Committee come under the negative procedure and are consequential upon the main affirmative orders . |
| 3 | He had never been to the Far East — in fact he had not fought in the War at all . |
| 4 | No I had n't been to the Far East unfortunately . |
| 5 | I had n't been to the Far East . |
| 6 | Whether you do n't know an opera at all or whether it is an old friend , you will still enjoy the show all the more if you have been to the pre-performance talk . |
| 7 | I do n't think any MP has ever been to the monetary system to ask for a couple of million pounds , actually . |
| 8 | However , it has surely been to the mutual advantage of the people of Scotland and England that we have had that union for the past two and a half centuries . |
| 9 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 10 | I had n't been to the mere for a week or two so did n't really know if the bream would still be moving or not . |
| 11 | They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’ |
| 12 | Standard of restoration , including the cockpit and systems , has been to the highest levels . |
| 13 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've not been to the new grounds at Walsall and Scunthorpe , Maidstone 's ground , or covered a League match at Barnet . |
| 15 | ‘ And she 's been to the best , ’ Antonio chipped in . |
| 16 | The old imperial line of communication through the Mediterranean , Suez Canal , Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the Far East and the Antipodes would be just as important to the Commonwealth as it had been to the colonial Empire . |
| 17 | George Fox 's original appeal had been to the poor , but soon the Friends were led by the ‘ respectable classes ’ in the same manner as the other early denominations . |
| 18 | aha and he says I 've been to the nice wee man he says he remembers ah going round all the houses looking for somebody to do in Apple Street and he went and told what 's his name ? |
| 19 | That 's not to say that it is a waste of time reading it even if you have never been to the remote geographical placement . |
| 20 | I 've been to the open-air theatre on the island every year since it opened , and I always tell people that you 've never really seen Shakespeare until you 've seen it on Brownsea . |
| 21 | In welcoming this commitment , Mr Bell pointed out that the substantially greater freedom which U.K. insurers have enjoyed in product design and in investment policy has been to the distinct benefit if their policy-holders in the past . |
| 22 | It had been midday Monday before she mentioned , in conversation with one of her regular customers , that MacQuillan had been to the Black Friar . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Pamela had n't been to the tiny next-door island for years but she remembered its wild , deserted beaches , its spectacular rocky promontories , the surprising wheat fields among the rocky landscape that had given the island its name . |
| 25 | ‘ You have been to the Russian baths ? ’ |
| 26 | She has never been to the Caribbean in her life , but most of her friends are black British : to their companionship she owes her aptitude for talking Creole . |
| 27 | The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman . |
| 28 | He has actually been to the actual America — and come back . |
| 29 | More sensitive than their counterparts at the beginning of the decade had been to the technical qualities of Hollywood films , the critics of the time constantly drew attention to the gap between the aspirations and the achievements of British films . |
| 30 | I have been to the Holy Land twice this year and have seen the appalling conditions Palestinians are living under . |