Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] she [vb past] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 2 | The last thing in the world she needed was to be attracted to the man who had been Elise 's lover — even if he were n't already engaged in a live-in relationship with another woman ! |
| 3 | Because , it occurred to her with heart-stopping suddenness , the last thing in the world she wanted was to be around when Rohan Saint Yves married Antoinette — or anyone else . |
| 4 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 5 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |
| 6 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 7 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |