Example sentences of "have been [adv] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 2 | ‘ Lady Nugent-Scott has been up to her tricks again . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Jegsy , who appears with comic John Hegley at the Everyman next Thursday has been up to his neck in work at the seaside . |
| 4 | ‘ Trading in the first quarter of our new financial year has been up to our expectations and is well ahead of the same period last year , ’ he said . |
| 5 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 6 | If it 'd been down to me , this park would never 've been sited here . |
| 7 | ‘ That would have been up to her . ’ |
| 8 | My own memory is vivid : it was a bitterly cold morning , below - 14° , and the ground I trod , in which only days before I would have been up to my knees in mud , was as solid as rock . |
| 9 | They must have been on to her or somebody 's given her away , one or t' other , 'cos it must have been a set-up cop . |
| 10 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 11 | But there must have been more to it than that . |
| 12 | Then a fortnight ago I had a cataract removed , but there must have been more to it than that , because not only am I startled by the brightness of things , but the vision in that eye is practically perfect , so I am not wearing glasses most of the time , though for faint or small print ( not piano music : hooray ) I shall have to get some more specs . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd have thought Brahms and Liszt would have been more to your taste . ’ |
| 14 | If I had specially ordered the moment , it could n't have been more to my liking . |
| 15 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 16 | So presumably either Pickerage was lying about his date with Hilary Frome , or the pair had been up to something the whole of Sunday . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had been up to my room that afternoon and asked my advice . |
| 19 | Mr Kronweiser had been on to something . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch . |
| 22 | Because I had a number of people who 've been on to me talking about the mess on the , on the recreation ground , and asking what it 's for , and as soon as you explain why , you know , it 's been accepted . |
| 23 | Witnesses er who 've who 've been on to us have described seeing five people dead , and at least three wounded who were being rushed to hospital . |
| 24 | They 've been on to us . |
| 25 | You 've been up to something . |
| 26 | See she , she came around cos erm I 've been up to her , her friends place to and give him a bit of a telling off like and that and erm she came to John 's house and I said , why are calling ? |
| 27 | I 've been up to my eyes in mannequins and haute couture . ’ |
| 28 | Then he admitted as he shovelled manure at a tree-planting ceremoney in his Huntingdon constituency : ‘ It occurs to me I 've been up to my neck in this stuff for the last month . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been up to my ears , ’ he says . |
| 30 | WHILE our attention has been on the General Election and its aftermath , the Serbs have been up to their old tricks . |