Example sentences of "[pron] had [not/n't] been to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 2 | I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 4 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 5 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 6 | She had n't been to confession since the vision . |
| 7 | She had n't been to Scotland for years . |
| 8 | I could also check that she had not been to Baskerville Hall on the night of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 9 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |
| 10 | We were taught at home by Mam 's maiden sister , Aunt Mary , who had not been to school herself . |
| 11 | " He wanted to know why you had n't been to class lately . " |
| 12 | Fitzormonde and Mowbray had always been soft , they could whine and moan that they had not been to blame , but Horne had agreed to Whitton 's plan and built a thriving business on the proceeds . |
| 13 | Though it had n't been to Rosemary 's flat that the tall dark-haired man had come , but hers ! |
| 14 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 15 | He was fully dressed , his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all . |
| 16 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 17 | Most attention focuses here on shifts in Labour policy , on armaments and on the EC , to which may also be added another less publicised shift , namely on attitudes to the US : when Foot became leader of the Labour Party in 1979 , he had not been to Washington since the 1940s ; Kinnock and his associates were frequent , and informed , visitors . |
| 18 | He had n't been to London in years , and did n't wish to . |