Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 2 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 3 | When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition . |
| 4 | Besides , if he had been to Tyler 's Hard , he would doubtless have recognized Harry from Morpurgo 's account of a strange visitor the previous Saturday . |
| 5 | It was an Unmentionable Disease , and he 'd caught it because he 'd been to an Unmentionable Place and so it served him right , but that did n't make it any less sore . |
| 6 | Robert had seen the development in varying stages , and had assisted in shipping out tons of building materials , but it was four months since he had been to Barbados and a lot of progress had been made since then . |
| 7 | My father once wrote after he had been to the French Legation to dine : " A forty-minute ride across two ravines and a swamp , then a shocking road up to the house on a moonless night is really no fun . " |
| 8 | Rain asked whether he had been to Sabine Jourdain 's home . |
| 9 | In her own way , she had been every bit as insulting to him as he 'd been to her . |