Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The references that I made were not to Labour party documents but to papers published by the chambers of commerce . |
| 2 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 3 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 4 | She had to decide before she saw her parents again if she should confess all that she 'd been up to . |
| 5 | North Korea would probably still have to admit , as Iraq has done under UN sanctions and as South Africa did voluntarily , that it had been up to no good . |
| 6 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 7 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 8 | If it 'd been down to me , this park would never 've been sited here . |
| 9 | If it had been up to me , you 'd have one police communication room , not two , because I 've worked in operations control , and you want to have a single control room for your authority , if any other system is less efficient than that . |
| 10 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 11 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 12 | They continued their research , but their reports were no longer published ( as they had been up to 1948 ) ; and , at a time when cost research was more clearly needed than ever before , Schiller 's team was starved of funds and talent . |