Example sentences of "she [verb] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been to school . ’ |
| 2 | In her heart she thought : Kind as she has been to me , and much as I respect her , your wife , my lord , is the last lady living to whom I am likely to apply . |
| 3 | She tells me she has been to every temple on the Greek islands of Mykonos and Santorini . |
| 4 | Any conference she 'd been to , everyone wound up in her room long after midnight , playing poker and spouting Bacardi bullshit , wine-bottle wisdom . |
| 5 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 6 | A long time ago , she 'd learned just how dear she 'd been to Ewan Famber : an experiment . |
| 7 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 8 | She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds . |
| 9 | With a wardrobe comprising jeans and sweatshirts , a make-up bag containing an eight-year-old foundation and a hairstyle that had n't changed in ten years ( husband Steve never noticed when she 'd been to the hairdressers ) , Juliana felt in a rut ‘ I feel I 'm 30 going on 40 and would love to look more stylish , but I just do n't know where to start . ’ |
| 10 | She could feel her cheeks burning as girls she 'd been to the convent school with in Naas said , ‘ Welcome , mam ’ and some had slyness in their smiles . |
| 11 | ‘ She 'd been to the French Riviera — or it could have been the Swiss Alps — or it could have been both — for a good couple of months . ’ |
| 12 | She 'd been to a lot of trouble finding something original , something you 'd enjoy . ’ |
| 13 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |
| 14 | Yeah , she 'd been to college but she could n't get her car started , she had to get her dad to drive her in and pick her up . |
| 15 | She 'd been to three lectures . |
| 16 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |
| 17 | Me mother used to go in and lie down when she 'd been to the work . |
| 18 | Look , she look 's to . |
| 19 | The last thing she needed was to be up in front of the stewards again . |
| 20 | The last thing she needed was to be trapped in a broken-down vehicle with Piers Morrison . |
| 21 | The last thing in the world she needed was to be attracted to the man who had been Elise 's lover — even if he were n't already engaged in a live-in relationship with another woman ! |
| 22 | The last thing she needed was to be found trespassing in the Baron 's private grounds . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm hoping to see something of Czechoslovakia while I 'm here , ’ she replied , but as it suddenly struck her that the silence emanating from Ven Gajdusek was decidedly chilly — and since the last thing she needed was to be bad friends with him if he objected to Lubor Ondrus flirting with her on his time , ‘ But now I must return to my hotel , ’ she added . |
| 24 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |
| 25 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 26 | She confirmed she had been to Hawaii with the hunk and said : ‘ We all had a laugh , that 's all . |
| 27 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 28 | It was , she said , adding that she had been to over fifty funerals in the UK alone , the funeral of a lifetime . |
| 29 | She had been to one of their meetings , and was even more confirmed not only in the conviction that they were right , but that her own group should get involved in trying to organise women to campaign for wages for housework . |
| 30 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |