Example sentences of "had [adv] been to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the 107 who had already been to courses were asked this question and the replies are shown in Table 24 . |
| 2 | Lady Cynthia ( like Elizabeth ) had lately been to Haworth and was delighted with it : ‘ I shall write a new book about the Brontës , Three Lucky Girls , ’ she remarked . |
| 3 | He asked her , smiling over the top of his glass , if she had ever been to bed with a man and when she said ‘ not exactly ’ he had burst out laughing and touched her cheek with one strong brown hand . |
| 4 | None of their friends or family had ever been to university . |
| 5 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 6 | Robertson had once been to Stirling Polytechnic . |
| 7 | Could any man believe he had the right to send another to his death simply because he had once been to gaol ? |
| 8 | He perceived that he was ‘ up against ’ the position of having to carry on his life not as an emotion , but as a scientific game ; that he was committed by circumstances to novel writing as a regular trade , as much as he had formerly been to architecture ; and that hence he would , he deemed , have to look for material in manners — in ordinary social and fashionable life as the other novelists did . |
| 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 | Forty-six Law Lords had been to Oxford or Cambridge , seven to Scottish universities , four to Trinity College Dublin , two to London University ( one of whom had also been to Cambridge ) and one to Queen 's Belfast . |
| 11 | It may well be that Wilfrid was no more acceptable to Ecgfrith than he had originally been to Oswiu . |
| 12 | The manager had often been to Holborn , and drunk her father 's wine . |
| 13 | His wife had invariably been to lambing and , sometimes , calving courses . |
| 14 | Yong and his father were the first people we had met who had actually been to Aru . |
| 15 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
| 16 | She had hoped to talk to him , to suggest that he ring Maureen , who knew quite well that her niece had never been to Venice before . |
| 17 | She told the interpreter that ‘ although she had never been to school she liked the life she lived . ’ |
| 18 | Susie had never been to church . |
| 19 | She had never been to Suffolk , but had chosen it because she had found out that property there was cheapest and the rates lowest , of all the counties within reach of London . |
| 20 | She had never been to Hereford before , had never even met the people they were going to visit and — being just four years old and as yet unable to read — could never have learnt about the district from a book . |
| 21 | Neither church nor hotel authorities could accommodate canines and Luke had never been to kennels . |
| 22 | Wellington 's riposte was that she had never been to South Africa , while he had and was therefore in a position to judge properly . |
| 23 | Edouard had never been to north Africa ; he was unprepared for the beauty of Algiers itself , and the magnificence of the surrounding country , with its rugged sunburned hills , its narrow winding roads which would suddenly open up on views of a vivid blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 24 | After all I had never been to London and it is one 's capital city ! |
| 25 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 26 | The court held that , despite its literal width , the expression did not embrace two Chileans resident in Chile who had never been to England , although they were partners with persons in England carrying on a business here . |
| 27 | Like many marine painters he had never been to sea . |
| 28 | She had never been to Spain before but she had imagined it . |
| 29 | I had never been to Rome or indeed to Italy before . |
| 30 | Sorge had never been to Langley before . |