Example sentences of "have [not/n't] been to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Anna thought of the funeral she had not been to , she had often thought about it , the strange people and strange cats who attended it . |
| 32 | Also on the visiting critics ' itinerary were such exotica as a barbecue dinner and a visit to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ; your correspondent , a native Texan , had not been to the rodeo since 1961 , when he shook Roy Rogers 's hand , but none the less did not feel compelled to spice up this report with such familiar Texas seasoning . |
| 33 | Alice hoped it was not on account of Jasper though , clearly , to make that emotional speech had not been to clever . |
| 34 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 35 | He was fully dressed , his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all . |
| 36 | She still had not been to confession . |
| 37 | He ate and drank simply and , although he enjoyed the theatre , he had not been to a play for twenty years . |
| 38 | It was chairman Lord Rees 's first visit to LASMO Colombia , while chief executive Chris Greentree had not been to Bogota for five years . |
| 39 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 40 | I could also check that she had not been to Baskerville Hall on the night of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 41 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 42 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 43 | A report from a social worker revealed the girl had not been to school since November last year . |
| 44 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 45 | Fitzormonde and Mowbray had always been soft , they could whine and moan that they had not been to blame , but Horne had agreed to Whitton 's plan and built a thriving business on the proceeds . |
| 46 | ‘ I 've not been to the new grounds at Walsall and Scunthorpe , Maidstone 's ground , or covered a League match at Barnet . |
| 47 | I 've not been to London in twelve years . ’ |
| 48 | You 've not been to Aflex ? |
| 49 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
| 50 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 51 | She had n't been to Scotland for years . |
| 52 | Crowds of people , including many who had n't been to a church for years , came to hear him . |
| 53 | I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school . |
| 54 | She had n't been to an art class since she had been married . |
| 55 | Pamela had n't been to the tiny next-door island for years but she remembered its wild , deserted beaches , its spectacular rocky promontories , the surprising wheat fields among the rocky landscape that had given the island its name . |
| 56 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 57 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 58 | He had n't been to London in years , and did n't wish to . |
| 59 | He had n't been to the Martins ' for lunch since Antoinette died . |
| 60 | She had n't been to confession since the vision . |