Example sentences of "[v-ing] been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know they wo n't consider me her kind , her havin' been to a fancy school , an' the typin' stuff an' all . |
| 2 | Having been to confession and passed through ‘ the wall of fire ’ , Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope , ‘ the suggestion about an orgy of egoism turns out , like all the Enemy propaganda , to have just a grain of truth in it , but I have no doubt that the proper method of dealing with that is as I intend to do , to continue the practice . |
| 3 | I was offered post-natal support having been to some NCT ante-natal classes . |
| 4 | She says : ‘ People have a very cliched view of the middle East , but my impression , having been to three or four Arab countries , is that it is grossly misrepresented in the western press . |
| 5 | Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region . |
| 6 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 7 | J. was a good dancer having been to dancing classes as a small boy , and enjoyed them , in contrast to his younger brother who dug his heels in and absolutely refused to do anything so sissy . |
| 8 | Never having been to London before , all my notions came from newsreels and movies like Oliver Twist , Sherlock Holmes and Mary Poppins . |
| 9 | ‘ Having been to Zakopane this year , I should like to voice my appreciation . |
| 10 | She had just slammed the car door by hooking it with one foot , when Mrs Frizzell , with a similar brown-paper bag of groceries , came round the nearest corner on foot , having been to the local store . |
| 11 | Never having been to London before , all my notions came from newsreels and movies like Oliver Twist , Sherlock Holmes and Mary Poppins . |
| 12 | She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor . |
| 13 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 14 | Having been to a coeducational school , she did not find men a novelty , and in theory ought to have been able to discriminate better than Liz ( who endured some fairly dreadful experimental evenings in her search for entertainment ) , but her natural kindness made it almost impossible for her to refuse any overture , however offensive , however louche . |
| 15 | but they 're not actually , having been to lunch and |
| 16 | With fewer of those serving having been to Sunday school and with the small number of hymns learnt at school , the repertoire is very limited . |
| 17 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 18 | You 'll find , you 'll find a whole of shorter lengths having , having been , having been to Nottingham . |
| 19 | He had come in early , not having been to bed , and placed his information on Coffin 's desk . |
| 20 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 21 | Without having been to college or tech or university , an IBMer at Greenock can take an MBA . |
| 22 | ‘ Having been to the World Cup finals the last time , I want more then ever to be part of everything and I fancy we can get there again by beating not only Lithuania , but Spain and Northern Ireland as well . |