Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [been] to [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick
2 I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different .
3 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 .
4 Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour .
5 She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds .
6 A long time ago , she 'd learned just how dear she 'd been to Ewan Famber : an experiment .
7 but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue
8 Yet they 'd been to Spain , Italy and Greece time after time , and surely it would have been natural for Isabelle to want to show off the country of her birth .
9 They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain
10 Cos , Claire was saying when they went , they went , they 'd been to Wales , France , and Scotland while they 've been here he said , .
11 ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her .
12 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 .
13 How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable .
14 And he was telling , you know erm it was the er Christmas thing , he was t saying he 'd been to France on a cheap ticket had n't he ?
15 Did he tell you w he 'd been to Hill Hotel .
16 He 'd been to Wewelsburg on several occasions , had even inspected the castle 's plans at SD headquarters , so knew it well .
17 I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’
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