Example sentences of "been [adv prt] to the " 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 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet . |
| 8 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |
| 11 | Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife . |
| 12 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
| 19 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 20 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | I 've just been down to the grubber . |
| 23 | 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 … |
| 24 | Patrick , so he told Franca , had been over to the flat at Victoria and had had a ‘ talk ’ with Marcus . |
| 25 | Have you been up to the house yet ? ’ |
| 26 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
| 27 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 30 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |