Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the sums he mentioned are to be believed , it puts a most terrible responsibility on my shoulders . ’ |
| 2 | The cases to which Cooke P. referred are to the like effect . |
| 3 | The components used were to be 1 litre of Siporax , plastic media ( Flocor ) and open cell foam . |
| 4 | The capital cost is to be financed from a local property tax . |
| 5 | Note that the word used was to ‘ assist ’ in controlling the tail . |
| 6 | Any conference she 'd been to , everyone wound up in her room long after midnight , playing poker and spouting Bacardi bullshit , wine-bottle wisdom . |
| 7 | ‘ They 'd been to other schools and the standard is high ? |
| 8 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Philip saw a photograph of the house he 'd been to with Mrs Wright , only it was a different time of year . |
| 11 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 12 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 13 | Did n't Tumbleweed say he 'd been to the fair before ? |
| 14 | A long time ago , she 'd learned just how dear she 'd been to Ewan Famber : an experiment . |
| 15 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 16 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 17 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 18 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours . |
| 20 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 21 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 22 | She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds . |
| 23 | You 'd been to convent school as well , you said . |
| 24 | Several of them enquired if we 'd been to the races ( we all had ) and had backed the winner ( no , we had n't ) . |
| 25 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 26 | Said he 'd been to a party . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | With a wardrobe comprising jeans and sweatshirts , a make-up bag containing an eight-year-old foundation and a hairstyle that had n't changed in ten years ( husband Steve never noticed when she 'd been to the hairdressers ) , Juliana felt in a rut ‘ I feel I 'm 30 going on 40 and would love to look more stylish , but I just do n't know where to start . ’ |
| 29 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 30 | She could feel her cheeks burning as girls she 'd been to the convent school with in Naas said , ‘ Welcome , mam ’ and some had slyness in their smiles . |