Example sentences of "to had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitude of the men he had spoken to had been essentially laissez-faire , but some of the women , Raleigh Ward nurses especially , were still quite steamed up about it . |
| 2 | The only dances she had ever been to had been school dances , and she wanted to go to this one . |
| 3 | Jean Symonds , one of the women who organized resistance to the men , retorted that " the girls he referred to had been weighed against their will . |
| 4 | His wife might even be sparing a thought for the murdered women 's families , never guessing that the man she was married to had been the perpetrator . |
| 5 | The cautions referred to had been given and he had been questioned months earlier on the first charges . |
| 6 | The weddings I had been to had been like that , quite different from the wedding parties in the villages along the Nile : a deafening noise of drums and flutes , bright hot colours and people saying words I could n't understand . |