Example sentences of "had [be] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essence of European diplomacy was still political , still what it had been to Metternich or even to Richelieu . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not even Wallace had been to Bouton , and we were unable to find any reference to it in the literature . |
| 4 | Anybody who had been to Venice must , he thought , confess that much of the beauty of that city consisted in the fact that at every turn the eye met with different kinds and styles of buildings , — at one moment Palladian and at another Gothic . |
| 5 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 6 | His elderly assistant , a tiny Tyrolean hat with a feather ( he had been to Austria for nine guineas in 1956 ) , and the rather poker-faced greengrocer lady sported a tinsel crown . |
| 7 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 8 | As she could not afford to keep a nanny or an au pair , having permanently available a woman who had borne and reared ten children , together with a woman who had been one of them , had been to Scarlet a godsend . |
| 9 | He had been to Aberdeen and joined the Gordon Highlanders . |
| 10 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 11 | I had been to Balsall Heath Health Centre on Edward Rd. with the NCT so we went there and all the other H.C.s and asked the Health Visitors . |
| 12 | He had been to Sandhurst and served in a cavalry regiment before going to Kenya to farm . |
| 13 | She had been to Babylon , and come back . |
| 14 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 15 | We asked if she had been shopping , and she said no , she had been to friends borrowing . |
| 16 | The woman who was sitting next to me had been to Perth ( a 360kilometre round trip ) to buy tomatoes : the only shop in Cunderdin , where she lived , charged A$3.50 a kilo , site told me . |
| 17 | My top-floor neighbours were a couple called Christina and Barry Jackson , and Barry had been to school with David and George Underwood in Bromley , and being a neighbour , I was quite friendly with these two . |
| 18 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 19 | Arthur and Fred had been to school together . |
| 20 | Elizabeth told Betty that Wyn had been to school with Hywel , and Betty told Elizabeth that she had heard that the Welsh standard of education was very high . |
| 21 | Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars . |
| 22 | He had been to school originally because that 's what she said he , then he did n't go to school and that 's why she said you know , how is he and she said |
| 23 | little boy had been to school and his mother and father was waiting for him to come home . |
| 24 | Well consider again this brief moment , where we 're given a new glimpse of someone last seen surrounded by a God-like power , the rector of Clongoes , where the young and impressionable Stephen had been to school . |
| 25 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 26 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 27 | She had been to London once before only , and now she was going to Paris . |
| 28 | Of course , we had been to London to visit Benjamin 's former betrothed , Johanna , a sweet girl whom he adored . |
| 29 | He had been to Buckingham Palace for a Privy Council , and he was able to inform Asquith that the King still hoped for a solution without a change of Prime Minister . |
| 30 | Its first governor , Sir Thomas Smith , had been to Russia for the Muscovy Company and was active in the Levant Company , and remained governor of the East India Company with two brief interruptions until 1621 . |