Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 2 | I 've been on to the P.L.A . |
| 3 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 6 | I 've just been down to the grubber . |
| 7 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 8 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet . |
| 11 | Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife . |
| 12 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 14 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Since then , several lucky Hairflair readers have been along to the Feature You studios in London for a fabulous make-over and photographic shoot — with some stunning results … |
| 22 | All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people . |
| 23 | Patrick , so he told Franca , had been over to the flat at Victoria and had had a ‘ talk ’ with Marcus . |
| 24 | All the big guns are through to the semi-finals as expected . |
| 25 | In rugby , Bicester are through to the semi-finals of the Provincial Insurance Cup . |
| 26 | It 's Twickenham once more for Bicester RFC who are through to the final again after seeing off Altrincham Kersal in the semis . |
| 27 | Cricket — Northamptonshire are through to the final of the Natwest Trophy . |
| 28 | And the ice men from Milton keynes are through to the final of the Autumn trophy they beat Swindon in the semi-final |
| 29 | But now we 're down to the bottom of the barrel . |
| 30 | They 're down to the squirrels . ’ |