Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] have been to " in BNC.
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1 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
2 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
3 | Every Sunday on our way back from church , we 'd call on Mrs Wright , whose son was a Schools Inspector and had been to Cambridge . |
4 | The use has led to further commercialism of the land and has been to the detriment of the rural character of the area , they say . |
5 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |