Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we last spoke , you told me that you were reading in bed until eleven-thirty , when you went to sleep , and your last sortie from the bedroom had been to the kitchen for milk at approximately ten-forty . |
| 2 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 3 | Magistrates were told that the defendant had been to Mr. White 's bank and had offered to pay the money stolen from them . |
| 4 | Veronica had been to the flat : was n't it possible she might have left something behind which Loretta could claim to have found ? |
| 5 | Police said David had been to a pal 's engagement party at a nearby pub but how he was killed remained a mystery . |
| 6 | The Western movie had been to America , the new promised land , what the Old Testament and its heroes — Abraham , Moses , Samson , Saul and David — had been in Biblical times . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although the original intention had been to formally assess the new curriculum before deciding to extend it to the rest of the school , various forces came into play to ensure that by 1987 the entire 160 strong intake was studying the new pathway course . |
| 9 | My one ambition had been to be a pro , and I got to ten handicap . |
| 10 | Mr Trelawney had been to sea before and knew enough to be useful , and one of the men , Israel Hands , was a careful and experienced seaman who was able to help with almost anything . |
| 11 | Angus had been to the town and he made his way back to his cottage along the shore . |
| 12 | He had been as anonymous to Aldhelm as Aldhelm had been to him . |
| 13 | An ancestor had been to the crusades , another had captured Harry Hotspur at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388 , and a Count Montgomerie had accidentally killed King Henry II of France in a jousting contest . |
| 14 | On the other hand , Memet had been to public school , so that had probably finished him off … |
| 15 | This covered 69 judges of the Supreme Court , House of Lords and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and showed that 76 per cent had attended ‘ major public schools ’ ( not further defined ) and the same percentage had been to Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 16 | Neither of Jo 's parents had been to Europe since her father returned from the war . |
| 17 | The man leading the hunt for the killer , Det Chief Insp Barry Hill , said forensic experts from Wetherby had been to the scene . |
| 18 | It 's , it was , it was er er sheer coincidence that Beverley had been to Crete the year before and I said to Jackie we 've been to Yugoslavia four years , do you want , do you want a change or do you wan na go back to Yugoslavia , she said well I 'll , I 'll have a look , I said how about , how about going to the Greek islands for a change |
| 19 | Our original plan had been to film on Lake Karakul , 50 miles to the north-west . |
| 20 | little boy had been to school and his mother and father was waiting for him to come home . |
| 21 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 22 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 23 | Meanwhile Home with great determination had been to the hospital in London and obtained Macmillan 's written resignation , which was read to the Conference on Thursday afternoon : ‘ I hope that it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the party about its future leadership . ’ |
| 24 | Most of the passengers on the Prospector had been to the Indian Ocean to shop and surf … |
| 25 | Disputes about whether a reference had been to an expert or an arbitrator have produced many lawsuits . |
| 26 | Now he was sharp and alert and as curt and direct as Sandison had been to him the day before . |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | The detective-constable who had brought in the exhibits had said that the girl had been to a dance . |
| 29 | " All men fought ; all men in England had been to India for the duration of the last war , leaving behind them a country of women . |
| 30 | Ruth had been to the shops or round at the flat of some girl child never previously mentioned . |