Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [be] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
2 | I had n't been back to Gallanach yet this year , had n't spoken to dad . |
3 | And it would be yesterday morning again , and she had n't been up to Hunter Ward and eavesdropped on a conversation . |
4 | Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast . |
5 | But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John . |
6 | But it had n't been up to him . |
7 | He had not been back to Stowe since the day he left , almost seventeen years before . |
8 | He had n't been back to Beirut in four years . |