Example sentences of "been [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she said oh , she said I 've been to see a friend |
| 2 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 3 | All of us that is except uncle Eugenio , who had never been to see a film , saying that it was a fraud , all illusion , and that when the lights went up and all the characters disappeared the screen was no more than a rag . |
| 4 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 5 | " Have you been to see a doctor ? " |
| 6 | He had been to see a palmist and shown him her photo . |
| 7 | Puts them on notice that you 've been to see a solicitor . |
| 8 | On one occasion after they had been to see the film Odd Man Out , thick fog prevented Bobby returning home to Blackheath . |
| 9 | Two million people have been to see the film Jurassic Park since it was released in British cinemas just five days ago . |
| 10 | The aim , then , has been to see the problem afresh , and a first reformulation of it was offered in Chapter iii . |
| 11 | It is also likely that my friend will , at some point , have been to see the SUSA Welfare Officer and obtained help with a late grant , or received advice on one of a whole host of student problems from harassment to housing . |
| 12 | I 've been to see the magician said Tim . |
| 13 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 14 | ‘ You have been to see the corpse ? ’ she asked . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been to see the dog , ’ Anabelle replied , and told him about taking away the dog 's food . |
| 16 | He remembered the last time he had been to see the dentist . |
| 17 | She had been to see the inspector in charge of her father 's murder case . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been to see the family ; I 've kept away until now … |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision . |
| 21 | The man of the world was not as interested as he should have been ; I had become quicker in some respects , mostly practical , but the price for this had been to lose the ability to make other connections . |
| 22 | One alternative option had been to preserve the house as a burnt-out ruin . |
| 23 | So far , at least , the official policy of the union has been to support the AWB , though in recent years criticism has been growing . |
| 24 | The contribution of the Conservative government has been to quicken the pace of centralisation , concerned perhaps to exercise greater control of public sector organisations for which privatisation was not an option . |
| 25 | Between them , they are better equipped than any group has ever been to combat the plague that affects eight women in ten . |
| 26 | Our main concern has been to promote the concept of self-evaluation as a tool for management and improvement of services . |
| 27 | His normal reaction would have been to swing the car in a U-turn to return and tackle the driver of the tractor . |
| 28 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 29 | The solution therefore has been to agree a change of use for the Wilkins building — to a hotel — with an office development behind . |
| 30 | The mission had been to penetrate a terrorist base in Libya and eliminate all personnel , which included Salim Al-Makesh , an advisor to the Black June , a movement founded by Abu Nidal in I976 in protest at the involvement of Syria in the Lebanese civil war , and Jean-Jacques Bernard , a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |