Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Neither of Jo 's parents had been to Europe since her father returned from the war . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Insp Ken Madison , of Darlington police , said officers had been to the scene of the crash but left when they were satisfied no one was hurt in the collision . |
| 5 | All our efforts had been to no avail . |
| 6 | In essence those statutory provisions had been to the same effect . |
| 7 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 8 | The Thracians and Illyrians had been to a great extent Hellenised during the fourth century BC , when the Macedonian empire of Philip and Alexander flourished . |
| 9 | Forty-six Law Lords had been to Oxford or Cambridge , seven to Scottish universities , four to Trinity College Dublin , two to London University ( one of whom had also been to Cambridge ) and one to Queen 's Belfast . |
| 10 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |