Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fans have been on to say that calling for the manager 's dismissal is not the answer . |
| 2 | The honourable member has been on to say that his mother was upset about her appearance here , not least because she felt it was invading her privacy . |
| 3 | Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection . |
| 4 | Your committee considered various sitings and concluded that the present position is most suitable for the 3 large 1100 litre bins which are eventually to replace the exiting heterogeneous collection . |
| 5 | The second consideration is that students require a degree of intellectual space if they are properly to develop their own intellectual maturity . |
| 6 | Modern agricultural practices are mostly to blame , it seems . |
| 7 | Tory backbenchers and the nation at large will give Mr Major about a year before deciding whether the helmsman or his crew are mostly to blame if the nation 's ills refuse to blow away . |
| 8 | The Lac d'Aumar and its satellite , the Lac d'Aubert , which are on and up from the Lac d'Oredon , are somewhere to spend the day . |
| 9 | But it had been only to say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ( 8 ) . |
| 10 | His first decision had been only to take on older parts . |
| 11 | I get people who I worked with ten years ago in the record business saying ‘ Been down to see City lately ? ’ — but ten years ago if you 'd have said to them ‘ How did City get on ? ’ they would have said ‘ I do n't go to soccer , I 'm into meditation ’ . |
| 12 | When I went to that rodeo with Jerry and I was n't home until after midnight , Harry did n't even ask me why I was so late — and he knew the time because he 'd been down to see if Islay 's foal was better . |
| 13 | that I 've been down to see it . |
| 14 | Yussuf had been put in the cells to cool off and Owen had not long before been down to see him . |
| 15 | ‘ We have been down to see the plans and were told we were not consulted because we were not affected , ’ she added . |
| 16 | And I bet he 's been down to see ducks . |
| 17 | You been down to see them recently ? |
| 18 | Yes , but this fellow you see , I said to him erm , you had a lot to do with that fellow , he 'd , he 'd been down to collect him from someone on the South Coast as well with a police of course , and I said what happened to the little girl ? he said oh she 's been in psychiatric care , care for four years |
| 19 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 20 | If it war n't for 'im I reckon our Ann'd 've been down to visit ere now . |
| 21 | On the subject of safety , do n't worry ; most cases of electrocution by guitar have been down to abusage rather than usage . |
| 22 | The welcome 's over … the introductions have been made … today it 's been down to work for Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby … their plan for the first game |
| 23 | Mr. F.W. Dee ( Company Secretary at the Brewery and brother to found Harry Dee ) had been down to play for Henley but had to withdraw ‘ having arranged to play for Peppard ’ . |
| 24 | Er I think that advertising has a lot to answer for , er we have this er , you know on cigarette 's there are so many notices and yet we get all this hype in television ads about cars , well cars are basically to get you from A to B and er there should be restrictions in advertising and try and get away from this macho image that the car has , its in , its a necessity of life its not something which alters your ego . |
| 25 | If your tactics are basically to run straight towards the enemy and hit him hard then a bolt thrower is n't really going to do you any good . |
| 26 | Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk . |
| 27 | Erm I do n't represent Mr and Mrs as you know , although they 've been in to give us a witness statement . |
| 28 | The weather was being at its most uncooperative — it was tippling down with rain when according to his forecast at briefing it should have cleared hours ago , and every single one of the navigators flying that night had been in to complain bitterly . |
| 29 | Close friend the director of the Lord Taverners Patrick Shervington has been in to see him too , he got to know Leslie Crowther through the entertainer 's extensive charity work . |
| 30 | they 've gave us since we 've been creating that much she 's had been in to see Mr she said and he says oh no he says er that 's not right Brenda , he says er mine are all guaranteed until they 're earning that money he says you ca n't just do it |