Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’
2 In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found .
3 They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics .
4 Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane .
5 I 've been on to the P.L.A .
6 My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem .
7 Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ?
8 I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill .
9 The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years .
10 I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight .
11 ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’
12 ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet .
13 When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens .
14 During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day .
15 ‘ I 've just been down to the market .
16 Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife .
17 That must have been down to the policeman .
18 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 .
19 I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery .
20 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 .
21 He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size .
22 She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow .
23 Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age .
24 It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets .
25 ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before .
26 he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches
27 I 've just been down to the grubber .
28 ‘ I 've been down under the sea , you know !
29 This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut .
30 I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise .
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