Example sentences of "they [vb past] [be] to " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |
2 | ‘ They 'd been to other schools and the standard is high ? |
3 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
4 | I suppose ( now ) they 'd been to bed together . |
5 | 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 |
6 | Yet they 'd been to Spain , Italy and Greece time after time , and surely it would have been natural for Isabelle to want to show off the country of her birth . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Er they 'd been to chapel with them , been to school with them , worked in other places with them , and it ended like it did . |
9 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
10 | Cos , Claire was saying when they went , they went , they 'd been to Wales , France , and Scotland while they 've been here he said , . |
11 | er , she said that they 'd been to the said this man had been to her house . |
12 | They 'd been to the hospital , and they 'd been over the flat so I said to them well pop the blankets on and come over here then and have your supper and go back . |
13 | She says , Ali Carver , she said they 'd been to that last Saturday night with a couple from and she said they paid fifteen pound just them |
14 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
15 | But , as Mosley noted with satisfaction , these supporters were no more use to their new leader than they had been to the BUF . |
16 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |
17 | He had asked the young men if they had been to Germany — knowing they had not . |
18 | So many places they had been to , so many people … |
19 | They had been to the Maxwells ' for drinks and afterwards to see Shaw 's Saint Joan . |
20 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |
21 | They could be expected to be as obedient to the workers as they had been to the capitalists . |
22 | They had been to the estate , yes . |
23 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
24 | Oh , and the , the trip they had was to er the Middle East , erm in the desert |
25 | Since the existing rules applied to a serf-based society , suspending them implied that the social order on which they depended was to be altered . |