Example sentences of "i had been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 2 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 3 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 4 | I had been to Balsall Heath Health Centre on Edward Rd. with the NCT so we went there and all the other H.C.s and asked the Health Visitors . |
| 5 | This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous . |
| 6 | I HAD been to Lourdes before . |
| 7 | ‘ The night before we were arrested , I had been to dinner with Nick Wells , and I asked him if he had heard anything , and he said : ‘ No , it 's all water under the bridge , I suppose . ’ |
| 8 | The inevitable question , ‘ What did you do in the hols ? ’ would be greeted with a list of the films I had seen , and the dances and point-to-points I had been to , whereas in fact I was not allowed to go to the cinema ( perhaps for financial reasons ) , had never been to a dance in my life , and did n't even know what a point-to-point was . |
| 9 | I had been to my flat and there was nothing there — it had been totally cleared out . |
| 10 | I put I had been to the grammar school and I got my O levels . |
| 11 | I had been to church , but I did n't tell her . |
| 12 | The weddings I had been to had been like that , quite different from the wedding parties in the villages along the Nile : a deafening noise of drums and flutes , bright hot colours and people saying words I could n't understand . |
| 13 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 14 | I had been to Mr Grover for a complete check-up . |
| 15 | This school looked so much bigger than the other two primary schools that I had been to . |
| 16 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 17 | I had been to the health club there . |
| 18 | She says : ‘ I had been to the centre — which is really relaxed and informal . |
| 19 | The woman who was sitting next to me had been to Perth ( a 360kilometre round trip ) to buy tomatoes : the only shop in Cunderdin , where she lived , charged A$3.50 a kilo , site told me . |