Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Service intervals of 3000 miles , plus an initial 500-mile check , mean the car has been back to the Dartford factory five times since April and have produced bills for a total of £826.05 , although £96.50 of that was to replace one of the 205/45 ZR16 Goodyear Eagle GS-D tyres , which had collected a nail in its tread . |
| 2 | Not content with blackguarding him in the columns of the local rag , him and his silly daughter 's bum , the one-time Chief Citizen of the Borough had been up to no good with a girl young enough to be Grace 's sister , and in the Grand Hotel , and at a Conservative Party conference of all places . |
| 3 | Talking of exotic locations , our lucky fashion department have been off to colourful Morocco , to see how they got on turn to page 37 . |
| 4 | But she 'll wear it if she has to , and she wants to go to Lourdes , the priest 's been on to her and she 's … ’ |
| 5 | Do you think they 'll enjoy reading about the things their little boy has been up to ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 7 | The Consul-General 's been on to me . |
| 8 | And the day after Holly had been up to London to apply from the Consulate for a visa there had been the telephone call at Letterworth Engineering . |
| 9 | The man who ran the world 's first sub-four minute mile has been back to the track where he made history nearly thirty five years ago . |
| 10 | Service spokeswoman Rosemary Sandford said : ‘ It 's a very important appeal and it reflects how popular the service has been up to now . |
| 11 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 12 | His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyhow , Grandfather had been down to John Adrich 's at the bottom of the hill and he 'd bought himself a grin'stone for sharpening tools . |
| 14 | ‘ Trading in the first quarter of our new financial year has been up to our expectations and is well ahead of the same period last year , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The majority ( 76 per cent ) claim to have understood what was required of them well or very well , and that the introduction of the scheme in their school had been fairly to very adequate , ( 78 per cent ) . |
| 16 | He was sure they knew something , some trick that that idle , rascally District Chief had been up to . |
| 17 | He made a mental note to check on what the builder had been up to . |
| 18 | I said , well your mum 's been out to work five days a week and you just help |
| 19 | The appeal has been shamelessly to the pocket calculator , not the heart ; to the purse , not to pride . |