Example sentences of "had [been] to [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 2 | He had been to Aberdeen and joined the Gordon Highlanders . |
| 3 | He had been to Sandhurst and served in a cavalry regiment before going to Kenya to farm . |
| 4 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 5 | little boy had been to school and his mother and father was waiting for him to come home . |
| 6 | An earlier draft had been to George and Rowland Wilson but the latter 's name does not appear on the final copy . |
| 7 | She too had been to Canonmills and Broughton school ( though she says she was " not very clever " ) and first of all went to work at a draper 's shop in the West End , a job for which she remained still nostalgic . |
| 8 | " Jack " , in Dublin , had been to bars and meeting-places , had made inquiries , had met this man and then that , reporting back to Bert and Jasper that things were going on as they should . |
| 9 | The people , the routine , the boredom : frankly , he had been to hell and back . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard . |
| 12 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |