Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv prt] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’
2 I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery .
3 Right lovely thank you Ah I suppose I better be off to work .
4 It can only be up to ourselves to either be seduced by this sly trickster and his façade of grandeur or to laugh in the face of his absurdity and bring forth the somewhat obscured benevolence of God , his son , and our first ancestral parents , to achieve some perspective to the poem as a whole .
5 The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush .
6 This can only be down to the ‘ flocculating ’ of suspended particles , which an efficient filter system can then deal with .
7 Count down 's on to D-Day
8 Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level .
9 Not been up to anything .
10 Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par .
11 And our all round cricket has not been up to standard . ’
12 He had not been back to Stowe since the day he left , almost seventeen years before .
13 When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency .
14 Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls .
15 Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast .
16 A porter had already been up to the suite with their luggage , she noted , as she observed that off the sitting-room — with French windows to a balcony between — were two other doors .
17 Lucy , who has 13 grandchildren and two great grandsons , added : ‘ I have already been down to my flat and have had a laugh with my friends .
18 Has he already been out to dinner with someone before coming here ?
19 I 've just been up to Tesco 's .
20 I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people .
21 ‘ I 've just been on to Mallachy .
22 He 's just been on to Maureen , got a couple of orders bearings and an Anglia contact .
23 ‘ I 've just been down to the market .
24 Neville , fresh in from points east , had just been down to Carnaby Street and looked the very model of the new generation .
25 Hiya yeah yeah oh yeah I 've just been down to oh we 've only just got in
26 He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake !
27 I 've just been down to the grubber .
28 The smaller town of Souvala , and poor Perdika , have not yet got that far ; but in general Aegina will fairly soon be up to the standards those fussy Germans and English expect .
29 Airbus is building four A Three Forties , like this , to fly on Virgin 's long distance routes , in fact this one will soon be off to Hong Kong .
30 Mind you , one look at Come Dancing and you 'll soon be back to Eubank .
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