Example sentences of "she had been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 2 | She confirmed she had been to Hawaii with the hunk and said : ‘ We all had a laugh , that 's all . |
| 3 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 4 | It was , she said , adding that she had been to over fifty funerals in the UK alone , the funeral of a lifetime . |
| 5 | She had been to one of their meetings , and was even more confirmed not only in the conviction that they were right , but that her own group should get involved in trying to organise women to campaign for wages for housework . |
| 6 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 7 | She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’ |
| 8 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 9 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
| 10 | Anna did not say that she was not a virgin , that she had been to bed with two of the men in West Kensington and had been , at seventeen , much inclined to suppose herself in love with one of them . |
| 11 | She had been to London once before only , and now she was going to Paris . |
| 12 | Clelia worked there because she painted : also because her parents pulled strings : also because she had been to art school : also because she had some highly inexplicit connexion with Martin . |
| 13 | She had been to most of the early-morning markets as far as Hyères . |
| 14 | She had been to the cinema with boys . |
| 15 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 16 | It was someone she had been to bed with . |
| 17 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 18 | Before Lesley met Alan , she had been to a party where she got drunk and ended up sleeping with someone without knowing it . |
| 19 | I was almost certain that she had been to the British Museum no more recently than I had myself . |
| 20 | Donna guessed that it was more than two months since she had been to the cottage . |
| 21 | We asked if she had been shopping , and she said no , she had been to friends borrowing . |
| 22 | She had been to Babylon , and come back . |
| 23 | Since Georgina denied that she had been to Miller 's End since Christmas , and to the woods behind the cottage since the previous autumn , the forensic evidence clinched the case against her . |
| 24 | She had been to the bar many times on errands , to fetch tobacco for her father , or give one of his fellow musicians a message about a rehearsal , but to sit there , how different , how enfranchised that would be . |
| 25 | She realised how close she had been to the edge when the Yggdrasil bit came for her . |
| 26 | She had been to Italy on a coach tour , and the Italian men could n't control themselves she said . |
| 27 | But Bicker had seen her wandering Glenbrittle , and she had been to the bothy . |
| 28 | The last time she had been to the office she had been confined in a poky little interview room near the editor 's office , but she hoped to avoid that fate this time . |
| 29 | She had been to Nice countless times . |
| 30 | She had been to Oxford . |