Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | first time I ever one , was old Freddie and I 'd , I 'd only been to depot . |
| 4 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 5 | Poor darling , he 'd probably been to hell and back as well last night . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 8 | In fact I 've scarcely been to bed before one o'clock any night since I first realized he was dyslexic . |
| 9 | We 've just been to Nursery . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | None of their friends or family had ever been to university . |
| 13 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 14 | Could any man believe he had the right to send another to his death simply because he had once been to gaol ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( Oh , yes , Benjamin and I had also been to university but , due to minor misunderstandings , had both been asked to leave before we received our degrees . |
| 17 | His wife had invariably been to lambing and , sometimes , calving courses . |
| 18 | We 've never been to station , d' ya know we 've never been on the slope and I 've , I 've |
| 19 | She told the interpreter that ‘ although she had never been to school she liked the life she lived . ’ |
| 20 | Susie had never been to church . |
| 21 | Edouard had never been to north Africa ; he was unprepared for the beauty of Algiers itself , and the magnificence of the surrounding country , with its rugged sunburned hills , its narrow winding roads which would suddenly open up on views of a vivid blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 22 | Like many marine painters he had never been to sea . |
| 23 | She had never been to lunch or any other meal alone with Willi since that day , but she was wholeheartedly indebted to him for his kindness , his common sense , his consciousness of the world outside one 's own personal situation . |
| 24 | Talk to one or two people who 've recently been to business school . |
| 25 | We have all been to school , and many have children at school . |
| 26 | she 's only been to work once since Christmas , she went erm last Friday |
| 27 | He 's drug-free , he 's just been to hospital , y'know , he 's got the kids , if he goes away , the kids 'll end up in a home , which was the biggest factor really . |
| 28 | They have both been to school and like to speak their few words of English when their elders are not looking . ) |
| 29 | It 's believed the Duke had hoped his son 's marriage to Becky Few Brown would be the making of the Marquis , a former drug addict who 's twice been to prison . |
| 30 | Her family were good , she said , " never caused us any bother " , and her husband was good , " d' you know , he 's never been to court in all his life . " |