Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well this i that 's a lunch club rumour because that one has not been to airport |
| 2 | It is — The Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) , laughs and cackles , but I have no doubt that she has not been to Archway Tower . |
| 3 | For contaminated groundwater , the standard process has generally been to pump-and-treat the water on-site , with subsequent recharging to the aquifer or disposal to a sewer . |
| 4 | ‘ Who has n't been to school this term ? ’ asked Sam . |
| 5 | why she has n't been to school she was in erm the . |
| 6 | Dad has n't been to bed yet Carla . |
| 7 | He has n't been to bed yet . |
| 8 | Dad has n't been to bed yet . |
| 9 | This argument is untenable as some of the most dramatic changes in behaviour by American hospitals occurred at the time that the prospective payment system was introduced , when only 10% of hospitals were private , for profit institutions , and there is considerable evidence that , especially for rural hospitals in the United States , the threat has indeed been to survival . |
| 10 | first time I ever one , was old Freddie and I 'd , I 'd only been to depot . |
| 11 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 12 | Poor darling , he 'd probably been to hell and back as well last night . |
| 13 | But er there there were there were some pe our , our , on the bench that we we had a really , cross section on the bench that I worked on , there were very , women , one woman she 'd never been to work in her life . |
| 14 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 15 | In fact I 've scarcely been to bed before one o'clock any night since I first realized he was dyslexic . |
| 16 | She still had not been to confession . |
| 17 | Fitzormonde and Mowbray had always been soft , they could whine and moan that they had not been to blame , but Horne had agreed to Whitton 's plan and built a thriving business on the proceeds . |
| 18 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |
| 19 | We were taught at home by Mam 's maiden sister , Aunt Mary , who had not been to school herself . |
| 20 | A report from a social worker revealed the girl had not been to school since November last year . |
| 21 | He was fully dressed , his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all . |
| 22 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 23 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 24 | We 've just been to Nursery . |
| 25 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 26 | He asked her , smiling over the top of his glass , if she had ever been to bed with a man and when she said ‘ not exactly ’ he had burst out laughing and touched her cheek with one strong brown hand . |
| 27 | None of their friends or family had ever been to university . |
| 28 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 29 | Could any man believe he had the right to send another to his death simply because he had once been to gaol ? |
| 30 | He perceived that he was ‘ up against ’ the position of having to carry on his life not as an emotion , but as a scientific game ; that he was committed by circumstances to novel writing as a regular trade , as much as he had formerly been to architecture ; and that hence he would , he deemed , have to look for material in manners — in ordinary social and fashionable life as the other novelists did . |