Example sentences of "have been to see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Magnus 's mother has been to see your mother , ’ she said . |
| 2 | A committee of the International Olympics Committee ( IOC ) has been to see if the changes qualify the country for readmission . |
| 3 | And yes , the youth Diniz Vasquez has been to see me . |
| 4 | For those not au fait with the aims of the Dick-Nixs , they 're an LA band whose purpose in life has been to see their namesake Tricky Dicky re-instated to his true position in life . |
| 5 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 6 | The aim , then , has been to see the problem afresh , and a first reformulation of it was offered in Chapter iii . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 8 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |
| 9 | Princess Anne has been to see the inmates at work … behind bars . |
| 10 | The most upsetting thing for me has been to see her medical notes and realise that she could have got the right treatment at home … that is if her country was n't being torn apart by war |
| 11 | Er the N F U representative for Nottinghamshire , based in Stanford has been to see me about it |
| 12 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 13 | I do n't know why , but David has been to see it several times he thought it was really good . |
| 14 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 15 | He said that an old friend was in St Mary 's Hospital and he 'd been to see him . |
| 16 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |
| 17 | My friend called me and said you 'd been to see him and were asking about a Russian cross . |
| 18 | He 'd nothing to say to her ; he did n't even plan to tell her that he 'd been to see her . |
| 19 | He said he 'd been to see Ben who was living on the Jonquil . |
| 20 | Robert said he 'd been to see you in Brno recently ; hope it was a good weekend . |
| 21 | But , after we 'd been to see Mrs Diamond , she was like you … . |
| 22 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
| 23 | I was just saying to Malcolm how surprised I 'd been to see so many your men at Doreen 's funeral , but I shut up when the police arrived . |
| 24 | He 'd been to see his girlfriend in Southampton and was on his way to see his parents in Sheffield . |
| 25 | and quite a lot of the nurses used to walk their nurses , I mean they 're er war trained and unarmed combat and they 're wardens , let's face it , they 're not nurses , and one of them was saying to me , oh we had a fellow in the other day , he 'd , he 'd a , fallen up the police stations steps I think erm , he said that he 'd been to see the do gooders , he had this interview |
| 26 | Waiting for this programme and erm when the husband , her partner went home they 'd been to see this , I do n't know quite what happened |
| 27 | How proud they might have been to see him now , risen so high above their status ; how fulfilled . |
| 28 | By the time you read this ( Merry Chrimbo , by the way ! ) we will have held a social evening to welcome our new members on the 1st October , we will have been to see the chilling drama ‘ The Woman in Black ’ at the Fortune Theatre on the 19th November and we will have had Christmas drinks on the 12th December . |
| 29 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 30 | I think the police should have been to see her within hours and not waited four years to see her . ’ |