Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [been] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year . |
| 2 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 3 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 4 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 5 | Forty-five years later Erika Barnes has been back to the village , now a thriving community . |
| 6 | It was not , at present , the eternal verities which were occupying her mind but the simple gnawing question of what Memet had been up to behind her back . |
| 7 | ‘ Lady Nugent-Scott has been up to her tricks again . |
| 8 | Robert had been back to the gallery , to the annoyance , I felt sure , of the owner . |
| 9 | Vaguely she wondered if Kate and Stephen had been up to mischief . |
| 10 | WHILE our attention has been on the General Election and its aftermath , the Serbs have been up to their old tricks . |
| 11 | There were interruptions : Oliver coming to ask what Ruby Dobby had been up to , and Shildon asking Rain for the latest news about the murder . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , Fenella takes her duties terribly seriously and would have a minute by minute report of what Springsteen had been up to while I 'd been away . |
| 13 | Already teams from GCHQ have been out to America to be trained in the use of the new equipment . |
| 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 | He had a fair idea of what Heydrich had been up to in Aalborg , and he hoped he might get confirmation this way . |
| 16 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 17 | So yourself and O'Gorman have been up to something ? |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Jegsy , who appears with comic John Hegley at the Everyman next Thursday has been up to his neck in work at the seaside . |
| 19 | Jean-Claude had been back to Reine twice during the year , to visit his mother . |
| 20 | So let's hear what jolly japes you and George have been up to since then . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Kronweiser had been on to something . |
| 22 | I know Paul 's been down to Percy Saint John 's and they are quite far ahead believe it or not they have got separate sheets for most subjects and we 'll able to do that English at pri Spring Gardens is good , so it maths because that was actually dealt with by erm Barbara |
| 23 | He discovered from his eunuchs what Roshanara had been up to , and , despite her support for him over many years , he disgraced her . |
| 24 | Benny heard from Patsy that the Healys had been up to Dublin to look for a child to adopt but they had n't got one because Mr Healy had a weak chest . |
| 25 | It did n't look as if Hatton had been up to much on that Monday morning in Leeds , but you never knew . |