Example sentences of "had been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 2 | And she knew how urgent and fervent their kisses had been , how close Lucy had been to abandoning whatever it was that held her back , made her withhold her beautiful body . |
| 3 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 4 | Mr Lewis had been to Spain |
| 5 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 6 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 7 | Nearly 55 per cent of people who have been in higher education had been to the theatre in the survey period , but fewer than 19 per cent of those who left school at 16 . |
| 8 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 9 | Erika had been to church before : with Omi , once on her own out of curiosity , and once with the F.G.Y. as a prelude to a discussion on Modern Superstitions . |
| 10 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 11 | Five years ago people might have thought her greatest contribution had been to the British fashion industry . |
| 12 | More sensitive than their counterparts at the beginning of the decade had been to the technical qualities of Hollywood films , the critics of the time constantly drew attention to the gap between the aspirations and the achievements of British films . |
| 13 | He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers . |
| 14 | My top-floor neighbours were a couple called Christina and Barry Jackson , and Barry had been to school with David and George Underwood in Bromley , and being a neighbour , I was quite friendly with these two . |
| 15 | The old imperial line of communication through the Mediterranean , Suez Canal , Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the Far East and the Antipodes would be just as important to the Commonwealth as it had been to the colonial Empire . |
| 16 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 17 | The leak was accurate and I was being forced to the floor of the House of Commons to defend a policy before it had been to Cabinet . |
| 18 | His elderly assistant , a tiny Tyrolean hat with a feather ( he had been to Austria for nine guineas in 1956 ) , and the rather poker-faced greengrocer lady sported a tinsel crown . |
| 19 | Philip had been to Barry 's house once with his Mum . |
| 20 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 21 | He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back . |
| 22 | And this was his chance to find out whether Emily had been to the shed before coming home . |
| 23 | She confirmed she had been to Hawaii with the hunk and said : ‘ We all had a laugh , that 's all . |
| 24 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 25 | Economically , of course , it had never ceased and had been to both countries ' benefit . |
| 26 | ‘ We had been to the pub down the road and were walking towards the crossing when we saw the train was coming , ‘ she said . |
| 27 | When Andy Mutch scored a deserved equaliser for Wolves five minutes from time , it seemed that Ipswich manager John Lyall 's pep talk at the interval had been to no avail . |
| 28 | John Ellis wrote to Linnaeus in 1758 to say that he , with Collinson and Ehret , had been to Richard Warner 's garden at Woodford to see his rare plant , ‘ like a Jasmine , with a large double white flower , very odoriferous ’ . |
| 29 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 30 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |