Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , sociologists and anthropologists , including Émile Durkheim , were interested in the reports of travellers and missionaries who had been to parts of Australasia . |
| 2 | And this was the day to do it the Women of the North lunch in Harrogate , like the Woman of the Year in London ‘ only much friendlier and more fun ’ according to a lady who 'd been to both . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Spencer told us of the people who had been to the Chapel to see what he was doing — and told us that several generals had been there . |
| 5 | I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'd have told him all about the breastfeeding and bonding if the Morrisons had n't chosen that moment to arrive on the doorstep with Christopher and Katy who 'd been to Bertelli 's for their weekly dose of colourings , preservatives and sugar . |
| 8 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
| 9 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 10 | Often there was scant evidence of academic activity , and this prompted criticism from some of those users who had been to mainstream schools . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |