Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [vb past] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's , it was , it was er er sheer coincidence that Beverley had been to Crete the year before and I said to Jackie we 've been to Yugoslavia four years , do you want , do you want a change or do you wan na go back to Yugoslavia , she said well I 'll , I 'll have a look , I said how about , how about going to the Greek islands for a change |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It had been midday Monday before she mentioned , in conversation with one of her regular customers , that MacQuillan had been to the Black Friar . |
| 4 | To Tom Poole that day , Coleridge wrote a farewell letter , setting down his sense of all that Poole had been to him since the beginning of their friendship more than four years earlier : |
| 5 | Elizabeth told Betty that Wyn had been to school with Hywel , and Betty told Elizabeth that she had heard that the Welsh standard of education was very high . |