Example sentences of "have been to school " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been to school . ’ |
| 2 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 3 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 4 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 6 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 7 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 8 | My top-floor neighbours were a couple called Christina and Barry Jackson , and Barry had been to school with David and George Underwood in Bromley , and being a neighbour , I was quite friendly with these two . |
| 9 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 10 | Arthur and Fred had been to school together . |
| 11 | Elizabeth told Betty that Wyn had been to school with Hywel , and Betty told Elizabeth that she had heard that the Welsh standard of education was very high . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | little boy had been to school and his mother and father was waiting for him to come home . |
| 15 | Well consider again this brief moment , where we 're given a new glimpse of someone last seen surrounded by a God-like power , the rector of Clongoes , where the young and impressionable Stephen had been to school . |
| 16 | Where 's your manners just lately , you 've lost them since you 've been to school ! |
| 17 | And I learnt from various teachers that when you go to these private schools and they 've been to schools , they hold them back because they like , they do n't like the |
| 18 | ‘ I have been to school , ’ said Camille . |