Example sentences of "they [vb past] been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'd been to other schools and the standard is high ? |
| 2 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
| 3 | I suppose ( now ) they 'd been to bed together . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 9 | Cos , Claire was saying when they went , they went , they 'd been to Wales , France , and Scotland while they 've been here he said , . |
| 10 | er , she said that they 'd been to the said this man had been to her house . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
| 14 | But , as Mosley noted with satisfaction , these supporters were no more use to their new leader than they had been to the BUF . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had asked the young men if they had been to Germany — knowing they had not . |
| 17 | So many places they had been to , so many people … |
| 18 | They had been to the Maxwells ' for drinks and afterwards to see Shaw 's Saint Joan . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They could be expected to be as obedient to the workers as they had been to the capitalists . |
| 21 | They had been to the estate , yes . |
| 22 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |