Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] be to " in BNC.

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1 This school looked so much bigger than the other two primary schools that I had been to .
2 For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother .
3 It was , she said , adding that she had been to over fifty funerals in the UK alone , the funeral of a lifetime .
4 Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about .
5 Anna did not say that she was not a virgin , that she had been to bed with two of the men in West Kensington and had been , at seventeen , much inclined to suppose herself in love with one of them .
6 I was almost certain that she had been to the British Museum no more recently than I had myself .
7 Since Georgina denied that she had been to Miller 's End since Christmas , and to the woods behind the cottage since the previous autumn , the forensic evidence clinched the case against her .
8 That you had been to bed with all those — ’
9 Yes , it was silly of me to forget that you had been to Scotland often — one of those mental slips which I am increasingly prone to .
10 The residue one is a problem as well Chairman , because when we had the sheep dipping campaigns , one of the things that we did was to , to just carry out some very quick rough checks at markets in this county to see whether in fact sheep were being withheld from slaughter sale for the required period .
11 er , she said that they 'd been to the said this man had been to her house .
12 Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days .
13 He may well be a transvestite , but I ca n't help wondering whether the make-up was simply a blind to ‘ Prove ’ , as it were , that he 'd been to a party that night , in case anyone picked him up .
14 He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia .
15 ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her .
16 Everyone would know he 'd become Rosa 's suitor , now that he 'd been to the house and paid a call after meeting her secretly at night .
17 and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it .
18 And she knew that he had been to The Bar over thirty times in seven weeks now .
19 ‘ I did n't know you were religious , Balvinder , ’ surprised by his admission that he had been to the gurdwara .
20 Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations .
21 In every way , Henry V acted as if all that he did was to be lasting in its effects .
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