Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [been] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like , I 'd been to church , been to Sunday School , so I knew all the stuff in the Bible , but I guess I needed to envisage it … see it , in my own terms . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 3 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 5 | Somebody asked me years after I 'd been to college if it was still there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You 'd been to convent school as well , you said . |
| 8 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 9 | Yeah , she 'd been to college but she could n't get her car started , she had to get her dad to drive her in and pick her up . |
| 10 | 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 ’ ? |
| 11 | er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's |
| 12 | Er they 'd been to chapel with them , been to school with them , worked in other places with them , and it ended like it did . |
| 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 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 15 | I suppose ( now ) they 'd been to bed together . |
| 16 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 17 | ‘ Sealed envelope with Mme Wyatt , ’ he replied , laying an uncharacteristic finger against his nose as if this was what he 'd been to spy-school for . |