Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [be] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , Memet had been to public school , so that had probably finished him off … |
| 2 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 3 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 4 | It was obvious that Bonard had been to considerable trouble to arrange for the members of his class to meet people with similar interests to their own . |
| 5 | Vichy , Spa , Baden-Baden , Aix-les-Bains , but above all the great international spas of the Habsburg monarchy , Gastein , Marienbad , Karlsbad , etc. , were to nineteenth-century Europe what Bath had been to eighteenth-century England , fashionable gatherings justified by the excuse of drinking some form of disagreeable mineral waters or immersing oneself in some form of liquid under the control of a benevolent medical dictator . |
| 6 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 7 | According to a friend Patricia had been to two fortune tellers recently . |
| 8 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |