Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] been to [noun] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	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 .
3	MI5 decided to do a trace on pretty well everybody who 'd been to Cambridge and Oxford during the thirties and showed communist sympathies .
4	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 .
5	Anybody who had been to Venice must , he thought , confess that much of the beauty of that city consisted in the fact that at every turn the eye met with different kinds and styles of buildings , — at one moment Palladian and at another Gothic .
6	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 .
7	He asked everyone who had been to Denmark about the barracks at Trelleborg and Aggersborg and Fyrkat .
8	I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard .
9	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 .
10	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 .

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