Timeline for Usage of "been to" in perfect tenses and in other tenses
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| Oct 1, 2012 at 23:58 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Shakespearian would be I must to Heathrow, or I shall to Heathrow, but I don't think it works with am. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 21:41 | comment | added | user16269 | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_market,_to_market - OK, not Shakespeare, I know. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 20:57 | comment | added | Barrie England | @Henry: I've just been trying to find a supporting Shakespearean quote, but can't. I feel there must be one, not that it would be of much relevance to contemporary English. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 20:52 | comment | added | Henry | "I am to London" sounds a bit Shakespearian but I would not reject it. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 20:46 | comment | added | Robusto | This is not really parallel, either. That a flight may go to Heathrow may be expressed as "this flight is to Heathrow" but you can't really substitute a person for the flight: "I am to Heathrow" doesn't quite work, and that is what the OP is interested in. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 20:43 | history | answered | Henry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |