Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 3 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 5 | Somebody asked me years after I 'd been to college if it was still there . |
| 6 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 7 | I had been to church , but I did n't tell her . |
| 8 | ‘ The night before we were arrested , I had been to dinner with Nick Wells , and I asked him if he had heard anything , and he said : ‘ No , it 's all water under the bridge , I suppose . ’ |
| 9 | It looked as if nobody had been to church that morning and she even began to wonder whether there would be any lunch . |
| 10 | You 'd been to convent school as well , you said . |
| 11 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 12 | Yeah , she 'd been to college but she could n't get her car started , she had to get her dad to drive her in and pick her up . |
| 13 | Anna did not say that she was not a virgin , that she had been to bed with two of the men in West Kensington and had been , at seventeen , much inclined to suppose herself in love with one of them . |
| 14 | It was someone she had been to bed with . |
| 15 | ‘ Made you afraid of men ? ’ he queried , and looked puzzled as to how that could be when he knew that , since leaving Ardis , she had been to bed with his cousin . |
| 16 | Clelia worked there because she painted : also because her parents pulled strings : also because she had been to art school : also because she had some highly inexplicit connexion with Martin . |
| 17 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 18 | Mark 's face brightened for he remembered who Miss Broome was — a nice-looking youngish woman who had been to church the last two or three Sundays . |
| 19 | I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard . |
| 20 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 21 | That you had been to bed with all those — ’ |
| 22 | 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 ’ ? |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I suppose ( now ) they 'd been to bed together . |
| 28 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |
| 29 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |