Example sentences of "i had [adv] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 2 | I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school . |
| 3 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 4 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 5 | I had n't been to the mere for a week or two so did n't really know if the bream would still be moving or not . |
| 6 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 7 | No I had n't been to the Far East unfortunately . |
| 8 | I had n't been to the Far East . |
| 9 | ( Oh , yes , Benjamin and I had also been to university but , due to minor misunderstandings , had both been asked to leave before we received our degrees . |
| 10 | I had already been to the dinner party . |
| 11 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 12 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 13 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 14 | I had never been to the Broads . |
| 15 | After all I had never been to London and it is one 's capital city ! |
| 16 | I had never been to Asia before and really did n't know what to expect . |
| 17 | I had never been to Rome or indeed to Italy before . |
| 18 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 19 | It was the first funeral I had ever been to where there was genuine laughter . |