Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her . |
| 2 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 3 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 4 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 5 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 6 | And he was telling , you know erm it was the er Christmas thing , he was t saying he 'd been to France on a cheap ticket had n't he ? |
| 7 | Did he tell you w he 'd been to Hill Hotel . |
| 8 | He 'd been to Wewelsburg on several occasions , had even inspected the castle 's plans at SD headquarters , so knew it well . |
| 9 | ‘ Sealed envelope with Mme Wyatt , ’ he replied , laying an uncharacteristic finger against his nose as if this was what he 'd been to spy-school for . |
| 10 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 11 | He had been to Aberdeen and joined the Gordon Highlanders . |
| 12 | He had been to Sandhurst and served in a cavalry regiment before going to Kenya to farm . |
| 13 | He had been to Sweden in 1911 and Norway in 1913 , experiences which encouraged him in the use of a looser technique and a thicker impasto . |
| 14 | He had been to Buckingham Palace for a Privy Council , and he was able to inform Asquith that the King still hoped for a solution without a change of Prime Minister . |
| 15 | His elderly assistant , a tiny Tyrolean hat with a feather ( he had been to Austria for nine guineas in 1956 ) , and the rather poker-faced greengrocer lady sported a tinsel crown . |
| 16 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 17 | Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars . |
| 18 | He had been to school originally because that 's what she said he , then he did n't go to school and that 's why she said you know , how is he and she said |
| 19 | The people , the routine , the boredom : frankly , he had been to hell and back . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had been to Martin Finkelstein 's bar mitzvah and had been given a small white hat , which was still on his mantelpiece at home . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
| 24 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 25 | The only certainty was Robert Lester , son of the Bishop of Aherloe , dull but acceptable , although he did n't hunt and was a poor shot ; still , he had been to Winchester ( on a scholarship ) . |
| 26 | He had been to hospital many times before doctors decided there was nothing they could do for him . |
| 27 | Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife . |