Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 2 | If it 'd been down to me , this park would never 've been sited here . |
| 3 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 4 | So presumably either Pickerage was lying about his date with Hilary Frome , or the pair had been up to something the whole of Sunday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had been up to my room that afternoon and asked my advice . |
| 7 | Mr Kronweiser had been on to something . |
| 8 | She had made a wrong choice a year ago , had put Steve and her career before the man she loved , but there had been more to it than that . |
| 9 | In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch . |