Example sentences of "[vb past] not be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't far from where he lived , just a stop further on the tube , but he 'd not been to the area before . |
| 2 | UNTIL Saturday we 'd not been to Meadowbank Stadium since July 1986 , the distinctly unlucky 13th Commonwealth Games . |
| 3 | And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect |
| 4 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 5 | Mr Gray said the Distone order had not been to V Corps , but to the neighbouring XIII Corps , and Lord Aldington had been correct to follow the Robertson order . |
| 6 | West Germans who had not been to the East had no difficulty in believing them . |
| 7 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 8 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |
| 9 | One after the other was called to report why he had not been to the police court for a long period , and threatened that if he did not do more work in the future he would lose pay . |
| 10 | We were taught at home by Mam 's maiden sister , Aunt Mary , who had not been to school herself . |
| 11 | Most attention focuses here on shifts in Labour policy , on armaments and on the EC , to which may also be added another less publicised shift , namely on attitudes to the US : when Foot became leader of the Labour Party in 1979 , he had not been to Washington since the 1940s ; Kinnock and his associates were frequent , and informed , visitors . |
| 12 | Anna thought of the funeral she had not been to , she had often thought about it , the strange people and strange cats who attended it . |
| 13 | Also on the visiting critics ' itinerary were such exotica as a barbecue dinner and a visit to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ; your correspondent , a native Texan , had not been to the rodeo since 1961 , when he shook Roy Rogers 's hand , but none the less did not feel compelled to spice up this report with such familiar Texas seasoning . |
| 14 | Alice hoped it was not on account of Jasper though , clearly , to make that emotional speech had not been to clever . |
| 15 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 16 | He was fully dressed , his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all . |
| 17 | She still had not been to confession . |
| 18 | He ate and drank simply and , although he enjoyed the theatre , he had not been to a play for twenty years . |
| 19 | It was chairman Lord Rees 's first visit to LASMO Colombia , while chief executive Chris Greentree had not been to Bogota for five years . |
| 20 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 21 | I could also check that she had not been to Baskerville Hall on the night of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 22 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 23 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 24 | A report from a social worker revealed the girl had not been to school since November last year . |
| 25 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 26 | Fitzormonde and Mowbray had always been soft , they could whine and moan that they had not been to blame , but Horne had agreed to Whitton 's plan and built a thriving business on the proceeds . |
| 27 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 28 | She had n't been to Scotland for years . |
| 29 | Crowds of people , including many who had n't been to a church for years , came to hear him . |
| 30 | I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school . |