Example sentences of "[been] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |
| 2 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's taken this long to get over it and , as many good athletes have discovered to their cost , the temptation has always been to carry on training . |
| 4 | How easy it had been to mislead him , as he produced his apologetic arguments and justifications . |
| 5 | Typically , the call has been to go ‘ Beyond the inner city ’ ( Byrne , 1989 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ So I struggled on when the best thing would have been to go into the reserves and get my confidence back . |
| 7 | I mean , the sensible thing would have been to go to her room , would n't it ? |
| 8 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 9 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 10 | In countries like Burkina Faso and Mali , the only option has been to go south to the plantations of wealthier coastal countries like Ivory Coast . |
| 11 | ‘ Magnus 's mother has been to see your mother , ’ she said . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 15 | A committee of the International Olympics Committee ( IOC ) has been to see if the changes qualify the country for readmission . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He had been to see a palmist and shown him her photo . |
| 18 | They had n't been to see him today . |
| 19 | I had been to see it years before in a taxi from Roscrea , and had been greatly impressed by the poignant air of haunted melancholy that hung over the ruins . |
| 20 | And if the England boss had been to see QPR in recent weeks , he would have been impressed , especially with Sinton . |
| 21 | Ludens was glad he had been to see Franca and felt sure , as he sat in another taxi bound for Victoria , that she had understood why , and in what frame of mind , he had come . |
| 22 | She 's supportable at home , but she can never remember that people have been to see her , so she 's always lonely . ’ |
| 23 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 24 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
| 25 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
| 26 | This she did , at which stage she had managed to go without drinking , but had not yet been to see her solicitor . |
| 27 | Later , as a Member of Parliament , I have been to see archaeological sites — Clickimmin Broch is one of the most remarkable in Britain — to talk to multinational oil companies at Sullom Voe , and to campaign against the Scotland and Wales Bills of 1978–79 , successfully , as it turned out . |
| 28 | He has never been to see me . |
| 29 | And yes , the youth Diniz Vasquez has been to see me . |
| 30 | Principally the visit had been to see a senior boy with lifelong problems who had suddenly become unmanageable and would have to be admitted to an asylum , but while there he had been asked to assess Anna Beckett , a child who had moved him strangely . |