Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [be] to " in BNC.
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1 | Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the . |
2 | But perhaps he had been to a Harley Street specialist — it was easier to imagine the long holiday being recommended behind thick net curtains in one of those tall houses with several brass plates on the door . |
3 | I thought perhaps he 'd been to you and sort of were you interested and he he 'd come back . |
4 | So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago . |
5 | But already she had been to the zoo with him and accepted an invitation for future visits . |
6 | She realised how close she had been to the edge when the Yggdrasil bit came for her . |
7 | She stopped , embarrassed suddenly , looked down , realised with a start just how close she had been to revealing some parts of her life , her thoughts … |
8 | A long time ago , she 'd learned just how dear she 'd been to Ewan Famber : an experiment . |
9 | I 'd been , a few weeks ago I 'd been to a wedding , and it was the most boring |
10 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
11 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
12 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
13 | I could n't think where you 'd been to . |
14 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
15 | Yet they 'd been to Spain , Italy and Greece time after time , and surely it would have been natural for Isabelle to want to show off the country of her birth . |
16 | And he did n't have to explain where he 'd been to a wife who has different ideas of a swinging time . |
17 | He was already a respected physician in his field , and his opinion was often called for in public hospitals and institutions , which was why he had been to the Foundling Hospital today . |