Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] been to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 2 | But er there there were there were some pe our , our , on the bench that we we had a really , cross section on the bench that I worked on , there were very , women , one woman she 'd never been to work in her life . |
| 3 | I do n't know if she 's gone alone or with some , or with a friend , but er she said she wanted to , she 'd never been to California and she wanted to go before she was too old and crotchety to get there because David 's he 's in no fit state to go anywhere any more . |
| 4 | Still , it sounded like a fascinating challenge , and she 'd never been to Sheffield before , so it would give her an opportunity to see another little bit of the world . |
| 5 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 6 | He asked her , smiling over the top of his glass , if she had ever been to bed with a man and when she said ‘ not exactly ’ he had burst out laughing and touched her cheek with one strong brown hand . |
| 7 | She told the interpreter that ‘ although she had never been to school she liked the life she lived . ’ |
| 8 | She had never been to Hereford before , had never even met the people they were going to visit and — being just four years old and as yet unable to read — could never have learnt about the district from a book . |
| 9 | Wellington 's riposte was that she had never been to South Africa , while he had and was therefore in a position to judge properly . |
| 10 | She had never been to lunch or any other meal alone with Willi since that day , but she was wholeheartedly indebted to him for his kindness , his common sense , his consciousness of the world outside one 's own personal situation . |
| 11 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
| 12 | She had never been to Suffolk , but had chosen it because she had found out that property there was cheapest and the rates lowest , of all the counties within reach of London . |
| 13 | She had never been to Spain before but she had imagined it . |
| 14 | And Scots comic Gregor Fisher — the man behind Rab C. Nesbitt — added : ‘ Lilly may think she 's never been to Scotland , but what about in a previous life ? |
| 15 | she 's only been to work once since Christmas , she went erm last Friday |