Example sentences of "be [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics .
2 Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane .
3 I 've been on to the P.L.A .
4 My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem .
5 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 ?
6 you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit .
7 I think we are on to a loser with this one , but good luck …
8 All I can say on that is that , as regards the delivery of patient care in the areas from which we have received trust applications , we are on to a winner .
9 If er , scientists and his team works on a , or think they are on to a discovery or something that needs researching , can get , the necessary funding , office , or firms that they benefit , say this in the previous paragraph , that 's fine , but to concentrate on topics which are I do n't think that happens .
10 Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing .
11 Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing .
12 With our high standard of food and a quality presentation , we are on to a winner and the school has been very impressed so far . ’
13 But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual .
14 ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’
15 ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet .
16 When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens .
17 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 .
18 ‘ I 've just been down to the market .
19 Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife .
20 That must have been down to the policeman .
21 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 .
22 I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age .
27 It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets .
28 ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before .
29 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
30 I 've just been down to the grubber .
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