Example sentences of "have been [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been up to nine or ten pound for |
| 2 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 3 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 4 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 5 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 8 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 9 | On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them . |
| 10 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 13 | ‘ D' you mind tellin' me what you 've been up to all day ? ’ demanded Dolly . |
| 14 | You 've been round to all the branches ? |
| 15 | We 've been back to some of the places in the film to see what changes there 've been and to talk to some of the people who were in the original film . |
| 16 | We 've been back to some of the houses featured in the original film to see how they 've changed . |
| 17 | mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house |
| 18 | ‘ There are many instances where UK investment and product costs have been up to twenty per cent below other European countries , but the investment has still been located on the continent because of unfair political pressures and highly discriminatory practices , ’ he added to gasps of pained surprise . |
| 19 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |
| 20 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |
| 21 | Erm on the audit side both Karen and I have been round to all the branches in order to deal with our old equipment . |
| 22 | Talking of exotic locations , our lucky fashion department have been off to colourful Morocco , to see how they got on turn to page 37 . |