Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did n't Tumbleweed say he 'd been to the fair before ? |
| 2 | It was an Unmentionable Disease , and he 'd caught it because he 'd been to an Unmentionable Place and so it served him right , but that did n't make it any less sore . |
| 3 | For upset stomach read hangover , she thought , knowing he 'd been to an eighteenth birthday celebration for one of his friends the night before . |
| 4 | Since joining the BDDA he had been to every one of its Congresses and his inclusion as third member of this select trio was extremely popular . |
| 5 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 6 | When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition . |
| 7 | My father once wrote after he had been to the French Legation to dine : " A forty-minute ride across two ravines and a swamp , then a shocking road up to the house on a moonless night is really no fun . " |
| 8 | He had been to the Top Rank entertainment centre in Reading when all the scientists had gathered one evening to formulate a demand for a 40 per cent pay rise . |