Example sentences of "[been] [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 | Patrick , so he told Franca , had been over to the flat at Victoria and had had a ‘ talk ’ with Marcus . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
| 25 | And has he been up to the top of the |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 28 | So , concentrate on this and I 'm , I 'm , must get round to , I 'm sorry my life has been in turmoil because of the , the dog situation , Jean and I have n't been up to the West End , but erm , I , I know which book I want , I want to get you , erm , and yes , I want you to do this , so and this actually it 's very good , very difficult , good , do a bit of technic . |
| 29 | Have you been up to the house yet ? ’ |
| 30 | I saw him — never mind how , I 'll tell you later , but the point is , he 's been up to the house and taken things . |