Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face . |
| 2 | We talked about the possibility of his death , we talked about the possibility of him being permanently brain damaged , we talked about the happiness they had enjoyed together and how important it had been to both of them to find each other . |
| 3 | He stressed first how important it had been to him to get to know Wagner 's philosophy of music and that his own " Dionysiac Philosophy " reflected that debt . |
| 4 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 5 | How cruel he had been to her ! |
| 6 | He reminisced how loyal he had been to his firm and how cruel he felt was his reward . |