Example sentences of "[be] to see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been to see La Boheme , at which Mr O'Hara had cried quite openly , and which Ellie had sat through dry-eyed , but with a breaking heart . |
| 2 | He said he 'd been to see Ben who was living on the Jonquil . |
| 3 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I guess that you have been to see Mrs Laura Lyons , ’ he said , and when I told him that he was right , he went on : ‘ When we put together everything that each of us has discovered , I expect we shall know almost everything about this case . ’ |
| 6 | But , after we 'd been to see Mrs Diamond , she was like you … . |
| 7 | But they can count the number of times they 've been to see Elvis the Musical ; 38 to date and it will be forty by the end of the week . |
| 8 | ‘ They say things like ‘ I 've just been to see Mum ’ so I must be still in it sort of , ’ she laughs . |
| 9 | He had already been to see Mussolini in the previous year and had been advised to call his New Party ‘ Fascist ’ but to play down its military organisation . |
| 10 | We 've just been to see Jean there at the chippy . |
| 11 | I said Antony , have you ever been to see Jonathan about the photographs ? |
| 12 | Already I was wishing I 'd never been to see Angy , even though I knew how much being estranged from his family had hurt him and it would mean a lot to him to get the ring back . ’ |
| 13 | Again they looked at each other in silence , and then he said very slowly , ‘ I 've been to see Beecham and Holden . |
| 14 | And then erm we ai n't even been to see Barbara and her and her new house and they only live |
| 15 | ‘ Well , if you 're sure you 're not suffering from any after-effects from the accident , I wo n't keep you any longer , ’ said Rachel with a brief smile , then as Jimmy stood up to leave she said casually , ‘ By the way , have you been to see Len ? ’ |
| 16 | And if the England boss had been to see QPR in recent weeks , he would have been impressed , especially with Sinton . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose he calls round after he 's been to see Rosa , ’ I said . |
| 18 | Well , I 've been to see Mr , and then I was off again to see him , and he said I was right . |
| 19 | And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial , devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for . |
| 20 | There are , however , important exceptions , and they clearly suggest that a first stage must be to see people 's housing experience in relation to the whole of their lives , in particular their lives in employment . |
| 21 | Tipperary were to see controversies eventually over the waste disposal habits of the mining companies , but these controversies arose after the mining was over and the companies had packed their bags and gone . |
| 22 | ‘ Would it help , do you think , ’ he said , just before they went up to bed , 'if you were to see Winifred Shalcross ? ’ |
| 23 | There were over 5,000 in the Volunteers when they were at their greatest strength and although future years were to see Glasgow regiments of men who fought and died in many lands , the old Volunteers who fought a dog and lost , were soldiers too . |
| 24 | Most recent excursions to the West End were to see Les Miserables and Miss Saigon , both of which Jeff and Alison have seen twice . |
| 25 | Sir Bryan opened the meeting by saying how glad they all were to see Mr. Malone back again and restored to health . |
| 26 | What a mouth-watering prospect it is to see Will Carling and Simon Halliday facing Jeremy Guscott and the emerging Phil de Glanville . |
| 27 | What a thrill it is to see England against South Africa on 14th November , as the first match and , at the same time , not to have ticket availability restricted to two per club . |
| 28 | Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world . |
| 29 | Marx 's contribution is to see ideology as having its origins in the social relations characteristic of the mode of production and not the result of prejudice in the individual . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , the other is to see Riddle 's solicitor — Mr Penver , of Cox , Penver and Green . |