Example sentences of "had [adv] been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fran had only been to the luxurious floating restaurant a couple of times , but knew from experience that the food was excellent and very expensive . |
| 2 | Perhaps she had already been to one . |
| 3 | He had already been to quite a number of shows where he competed in halter classes ; but this wag the first occasion where he was ridden in a saddle class . |
| 4 | Only the 107 who had already been to courses were asked this question and the replies are shown in Table 24 . |
| 5 | Should I tell her here and now that Ewen Mackay had already been to the cottage ? |
| 6 | I had already been to the dinner party . |
| 7 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 8 | Mr Gray said the Distone order had not been to V Corps , but to the neighbouring XIII Corps , and Lord Aldington had been correct to follow the Robertson order . |
| 9 | West Germans who had not been to the East had no difficulty in believing them . |
| 10 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 11 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |
| 12 | One after the other was called to report why he had not been to the police court for a long period , and threatened that if he did not do more work in the future he would lose pay . |
| 13 | We were taught at home by Mam 's maiden sister , Aunt Mary , who had not been to school herself . |
| 14 | Most attention focuses here on shifts in Labour policy , on armaments and on the EC , to which may also be added another less publicised shift , namely on attitudes to the US : when Foot became leader of the Labour Party in 1979 , he had not been to Washington since the 1940s ; Kinnock and his associates were frequent , and informed , visitors . |
| 15 | Anna thought of the funeral she had not been to , she had often thought about it , the strange people and strange cats who attended it . |
| 16 | Also on the visiting critics ' itinerary were such exotica as a barbecue dinner and a visit to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ; your correspondent , a native Texan , had not been to the rodeo since 1961 , when he shook Roy Rogers 's hand , but none the less did not feel compelled to spice up this report with such familiar Texas seasoning . |
| 17 | Alice hoped it was not on account of Jasper though , clearly , to make that emotional speech had not been to clever . |
| 18 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 19 | He was fully dressed , his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all . |
| 20 | She still had not been to confession . |
| 21 | He ate and drank simply and , although he enjoyed the theatre , he had not been to a play for twenty years . |
| 22 | It was chairman Lord Rees 's first visit to LASMO Colombia , while chief executive Chris Greentree had not been to Bogota for five years . |
| 23 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 24 | I could also check that she had not been to Baskerville Hall on the night of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 25 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 26 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 27 | A report from a social worker revealed the girl had not been to school since November last year . |
| 28 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 29 | Fitzormonde and Mowbray had always been soft , they could whine and moan that they had not been to blame , but Horne had agreed to Whitton 's plan and built a thriving business on the proceeds . |
| 30 | Lady Cynthia ( like Elizabeth ) had lately been to Haworth and was delighted with it : ‘ I shall write a new book about the Brontës , Three Lucky Girls , ’ she remarked . |