Example sentences of "been [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 2 | For at least twenty-five years , Western policy had been to help the Shah destroy all alternatives to his own rule . |
| 3 | His first choice had been to combine the Tchaikovsky concerto with a complete recording of the composer 's Souvenir d'un lieu cher ( Op. 42 ) , in the orchestrated version by Glazunov . |
| 4 | Its aim in threatening to intercept the Dae Hung Ho had been to underscore the US position against missile proliferation in the region . |
| 5 | Anyone who has been to watch the Ryder Cup at The Belfry will know what it is like to be in a large crowd when there are only four matches on the course . |
| 6 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |