Example sentences of "had [adv] be 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | We was in this railway station and Marie had just been to the dentist . |
| 9 | Clare had just been to the lavatory , which , she claimed , was a significant experience . |
| 10 | He had just been to the Palace to kiss hands as Prime Minister for the second time . |
| 11 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 12 | ‘ While I was with her , ’ I said , ‘ she told me what a wonderful husband you had always been to her — always , in every way , all your married life . ’ |
| 13 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 14 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 15 | Little Gino , whose ambition had always been to be taller than four foot ten , had got a little too interested when it was his turn and even in the candlelight we could all see that he 'd deliberately got his charm bracelet tangled in one of Sorrel 's suspenders . |
| 16 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 17 | It was the most marvellous party Constance had ever been to . |
| 18 | It was the first funeral I had ever been to where there was genuine laughter . |
| 19 | ‘ Friends , many of them believers , came up afterwards and said it was the most beautiful funeral they had ever been to . |
| 20 | The only dances she had ever been to had been school dances , and she wanted to go to this one . |
| 21 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 22 | Sylvie had come the closest she had ever been to begging . |
| 23 | Nick 's friends wrote that it was the best party they had ever been to , a truly unforgettable occasion . |
| 24 | None of their friends or family had ever been to university . |
| 25 | He asked her , smiling over the top of his glass , if she had ever been to bed with a man and when she said ‘ not exactly ’ he had burst out laughing and touched her cheek with one strong brown hand . |
| 26 | Alix 's godmother , also named Alix , had once been to a ball in Vienna . |
| 27 | Not that she thought Matey , or Dr Neil , would come poking around her room , but she was changing rapidly from the trusting and innocent girl she had once been to someone more cautious — she , Sally-Anne , more cautious ! |
| 28 | Robertson had once been to Stirling Polytechnic . |
| 29 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 30 | Could any man believe he had the right to send another to his death simply because he had once been to gaol ? |