Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours . |
| 2 | I 'd been , a few weeks ago I 'd been to a wedding , and it was the most boring |
| 3 | Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left . |
| 4 | When she 'd calmed down she asked me if I 'd been to the doctors , and we made arrangements for her to take me down . |
| 5 | Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the . |
| 6 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been to the leisure centre , just across the road . |
| 8 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 9 | I , I had this dream the other night , and it was so real , I thought I 'd been to the cinema . |
| 10 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 11 | This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous . |
| 12 | I put I had been to the grammar school and I got my O levels . |
| 13 | I had been to the health club there . |
| 14 | She says : ‘ I had been to the centre — which is really relaxed and informal . |
| 15 | The appeal court took the view that a speaker must take the audience as he or she finds it — this contradicted Beatty v. Gillbanks and revived all the fears about ‘ mob rule ’ which had been to the forefront of the judges ' minds in that case . |
| 16 | ‘ He says he phoned Maurin after you 'd been to the hotel because he wanted to report that you were asking questions about Barbara . |
| 17 | Yes , but you 'd been to the flat at about ten thirty in the evening before was there anything you heard or seen at the flat to indicate it might be a hostage situation ? |
| 18 | Ah ! rang , you should have said you could n't pick me up cos you 'd been to the pub . |
| 19 | She 'd been to a lot of trouble finding something original , something you 'd enjoy . ’ |
| 20 | With a wardrobe comprising jeans and sweatshirts , a make-up bag containing an eight-year-old foundation and a hairstyle that had n't changed in ten years ( husband Steve never noticed when she 'd been to the hairdressers ) , Juliana felt in a rut ‘ I feel I 'm 30 going on 40 and would love to look more stylish , but I just do n't know where to start . ’ |
| 21 | She could feel her cheeks burning as girls she 'd been to the convent school with in Naas said , ‘ Welcome , mam ’ and some had slyness in their smiles . |
| 22 | ‘ She 'd been to the French Riviera — or it could have been the Swiss Alps — or it could have been both — for a good couple of months . ’ |
| 23 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |
| 24 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |
| 25 | Me mother used to go in and lie down when she 'd been to the work . |
| 26 | And in fact I found from playing with Eric , that it was much more fun to just turn up and the first playing you did was to the audience . |
| 27 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 28 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 29 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 30 | Before Lesley met Alan , she had been to a party where she got drunk and ended up sleeping with someone without knowing it . |