Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | first time I ever one , was old Freddie and I 'd , I 'd only been to depot . |
| 2 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 3 | On that holiday they er they 'd also been to Cairo as well as , and I mean some of the erm trips erm are they go to Luxor and you board a erm er the ship from Luxor to Aswan and you do n't get to Cairo and I think if you 're going to Egypt you really want to go to Cairo |
| 4 | Poor darling , he 'd probably been to hell and back as well last night . |
| 5 | I 'd never been to London then . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 13 | Only the 107 who had already been to courses were asked this question and the replies are shown in Table 24 . |
| 14 | Lady Cynthia ( like Elizabeth ) had lately been to Haworth and was delighted with it : ‘ I shall write a new book about the Brontës , Three Lucky Girls , ’ she remarked . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | None of their friends or family had ever been to university . |
| 17 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 18 | Robertson had once been to Stirling Polytechnic . |
| 19 | Could any man believe he had the right to send another to his death simply because he had once been to gaol ? |
| 20 | He perceived that he was ‘ up against ’ the position of having to carry on his life not as an emotion , but as a scientific game ; that he was committed by circumstances to novel writing as a regular trade , as much as he had formerly been to architecture ; and that hence he would , he deemed , have to look for material in manners — in ordinary social and fashionable life as the other novelists did . |
| 21 | ( Oh , yes , Benjamin and I had also been to university but , due to minor misunderstandings , had both been asked to leave before we received our degrees . |
| 22 | Forty-six Law Lords had been to Oxford or Cambridge , seven to Scottish universities , four to Trinity College Dublin , two to London University ( one of whom had also been to Cambridge ) and one to Queen 's Belfast . |
| 23 | It may well be that Wilfrid was no more acceptable to Ecgfrith than he had originally been to Oswiu . |
| 24 | The manager had often been to Holborn , and drunk her father 's wine . |
| 25 | His wife had invariably been to lambing and , sometimes , calving courses . |
| 26 | Yong and his father were the first people we had met who had actually been to Aru . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She had hoped to talk to him , to suggest that he ring Maureen , who knew quite well that her niece had never been to Venice before . |
| 29 | She told the interpreter that ‘ although she had never been to school she liked the life she lived . ’ |
| 30 | Susie had never been to church . |