Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er they 'd been to chapel with them , been to school with them , worked in other places with them , and it ended like it did . |
| 2 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 3 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 4 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 5 | I suppose ( now ) they 'd been to bed together . |
| 6 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 7 | You 'd been to convent school as well , you said . |
| 8 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 9 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 10 | And he was telling , you know erm it was the er Christmas thing , he was t saying he 'd been to France on a cheap ticket had n't he ? |
| 11 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 12 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 13 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 15 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 16 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 17 | She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds . |
| 18 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 19 | Yet they 'd been to Spain , Italy and Greece time after time , and surely it would have been natural for Isabelle to want to show off the country of her birth . |
| 20 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 21 | Like , I 'd been to church , been to Sunday School , so I knew all the stuff in the Bible , but I guess I needed to envisage it … see it , in my own terms . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 23 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 24 | ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her . |
| 25 | Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour . |
| 26 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 27 | ‘ Sealed envelope with Mme Wyatt , ’ he replied , laying an uncharacteristic finger against his nose as if this was what he 'd been to spy-school for . |
| 28 | MI5 decided to do a trace on pretty well everybody who 'd been to Cambridge and Oxford during the thirties and showed communist sympathies . |
| 29 | er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's |
| 30 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |