Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 2 | Veronica had been to the flat : was n't it possible she might have left something behind which Loretta could claim to have found ? |
| 3 | Police said David had been to a pal 's engagement party at a nearby pub but how he was killed remained a mystery . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Angus had been to the town and he made his way back to his cottage along the shore . |
| 7 | He had been as anonymous to Aldhelm as Aldhelm had been to him . |
| 8 | On the other hand , Memet had been to public school , so that had probably finished him off … |
| 9 | The man leading the hunt for the killer , Det Chief Insp Barry Hill , said forensic experts from Wetherby had been to the scene . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now he was sharp and alert and as curt and direct as Sandison had been to him the day before . |
| 14 | " 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 . |
| 15 | Ruth had been to the shops or round at the flat of some girl child never previously mentioned . |
| 16 | Everyone he had met in Fontanellato had been very kind , a good deal kinder than the people of Štanjel had been to his successor ; which was encouraging . |
| 17 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 18 | It was obvious that Bonard had been to considerable trouble to arrange for the members of his class to meet people with similar interests to their own . |
| 19 | Arthur and Fred had been to school together . |
| 20 | She and Havvie had been to a flower show . |
| 21 | He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back . |
| 22 | Lily had been to dancing class — but so had Daisy and Ethel , just as all three at Dad 's especial wish had spent many hours learning the piano . |
| 23 | Well consider again this brief moment , where we 're given a new glimpse of someone last seen surrounded by a God-like power , the rector of Clongoes , where the young and impressionable Stephen had been to school . |
| 24 | Philip had been to Barry 's house once with his Mum . |
| 25 | Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches . |
| 26 | Vichy , Spa , Baden-Baden , Aix-les-Bains , but above all the great international spas of the Habsburg monarchy , Gastein , Marienbad , Karlsbad , etc. , were to nineteenth-century Europe what Bath had been to eighteenth-century England , fashionable gatherings justified by the excuse of drinking some form of disagreeable mineral waters or immersing oneself in some form of liquid under the control of a benevolent medical dictator . |
| 27 | My visit to Harrogate had been to gee me on . |
| 28 | So while Sutton had been frantically interviewing and trying to cope with real stories , Pilger had been to the Regent Street studio of Carrol , Dempsey and Thirkell , designers of the two-month-old Independent , described by the middle classes hoping for better papers as ‘ a good deed in a naughty world ’ . |
| 29 | What Owen wanted was to be in and out fast . |
| 30 | In those days he had n't yet eaten shrimp , but Davide had been to the sea , often , and reported . |