Example sentences of "we [vb past] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
| 2 | Several of them enquired if we 'd been to the races ( we all had ) and had backed the winner ( no , we had n't ) . |
| 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 | That evening , Abu Salim came to chain Brian and me up after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 5 | We 'd hoped that such irritations were behind us , but then they started taking toothpaste and soap away from us after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 6 | We 'd been to a party with Nancy and Frank . |
| 7 | He mentioned old times , the Army , you know , places we 'd been to . |
| 8 | I remember wandering with Donald somewhere in the East End after we 'd been to the Whitechapel and we saw a group of teddies standing round two middle-aged Indians . |
| 9 | And how did you know we 'd been to Nice ? ’ |
| 10 | All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face . |
| 11 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 12 | er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's |
| 13 | Another outing we enjoyed was to Mayell 's Chocolate Factory , where for $2 you can tour the factory and eat as many of the products as you want . |
| 14 | They 've they 've sent , we have a bank account , the first thing we did was to o This is the steering committee . |
| 15 | The residue one is a problem as well Chairman , because when we had the sheep dipping campaigns , one of the things that we did was to , to just carry out some very quick rough checks at markets in this county to see whether in fact sheep were being withheld from slaughter sale for the required period . |
| 16 | ‘ We had been to the pub down the road and were walking towards the crossing when we saw the train was coming , ‘ she said . |
| 17 | ‘ We had been to Blackpool to do some Christmas shopping last month and everything was going so well , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ We had been to the pub and as we walked along a well-lit walkway this man came towards us . |
| 19 | At the other Delhi parties we had been to — mostly boring official events — it had been a struggle to avoid getting cornered by some grey under-secretary from the Ministry of Fertilizer Distribution . |
| 20 | Of course , we had been to London to visit Benjamin 's former betrothed , Johanna , a sweet girl whom he adored . |
| 21 | We had been to Euro Disney and had a toy gun for Matthew . |