Example sentences of "[be] [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 | All that has long since changed and , while talent can still win the day , both fields are down to the hard graft of making money . |
| 25 | All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people . |
| 26 | A third are down to the thermal imaging capability . |
| 27 | I mean I think you and say that you know I mean I think test matches are simply because you know over time , you know people are in to the one day cricket match , be the excitement and everything else and it 's getting increasingly more difficult for television companies to get sponsorship , commercial sponsorship for |
| 28 | And just finally , on Friday we are in to the we 've been invited into a bags competition , you know , that 's after the bags actually means bookmakers afternoon greyhound services , and we race that every Friday as you know erm anyway we 've been invited to erm a national championship involving the other bags tracks that erm involved in this erm and so we stage our two heats on Friday . |
| 29 | Patrick , so he told Franca , had been over to the flat at Victoria and had had a ‘ talk ’ with Marcus . |
| 30 | In the Famous Crouse Coronation Foursomes Medal , Mrs. S. Meredith and Mrs. B. Halsey are through to the next round . |