Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 2 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 3 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 4 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 5 | But , as Mosley noted with satisfaction , these supporters were no more use to their new leader than they had been to the BUF . |
| 6 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 7 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 8 | When she 'd calmed down she asked me if I 'd been to the doctors , and we made arrangements for her to take me down . |
| 9 | It looked as if nobody had been to church that morning and she even began to wonder whether there would be any lunch . |
| 10 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |
| 11 | Ah ! rang , you should have said you could n't pick me up cos you 'd been to the pub . |
| 12 | Several of them enquired if we 'd been to the races ( we all had ) and had backed the winner ( no , we had n't ) . |
| 13 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 14 | He had asked the young men if they had been to Germany — knowing they had not . |
| 15 | When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition . |
| 16 | Besides , if he had been to Tyler 's Hard , he would doubtless have recognized Harry from Morpurgo 's account of a strange visitor the previous Saturday . |
| 17 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 18 | ‘ Because you 'd been to Nice . |
| 19 | Clelia worked there because she painted : also because her parents pulled strings : also because she had been to art school : also because she had some highly inexplicit connexion with Martin . |
| 20 | It was an Unmentionable Disease , and he 'd caught it because he 'd been to an Unmentionable Place and so it served him right , but that did n't make it any less sore . |
| 21 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 22 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 23 | Donna guessed that it was more than two months since she had been to the cottage . |
| 24 | Robert had seen the development in varying stages , and had assisted in shipping out tons of building materials , but it was four months since he had been to Barbados and a lot of progress had been made since then . |
| 25 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 26 | Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left . |
| 27 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 28 | Somebody asked me years after I 'd been to college if it was still there . |
| 29 | ‘ He says he phoned Maurin after you 'd been to the hotel because he wanted to report that you were asking questions about Barbara . |
| 30 | That evening , Abu Salim came to chain Brian and me up after we 'd been to the bathroom . |