Example sentences of "have been [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although I did n't , he he , I did n't have time to ask him what the hell he 'd been up to . |
| 32 | So he did n't know what she 'd been up to . |
| 33 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 34 | Oh she 'd been up to Pearks |
| 35 | she 'd been up to Scotland |
| 36 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 37 | She 'd been back to the shop twice hoping to chase the progress of her textiles order . |
| 38 | She said she 'd been back to bed . |
| 39 | For many this was the first time they 'd been back to Parham in thirty six years . |
| 40 | She 'd been down to Goring for Marius ' funeral , ( having found out the time by ringing Morrison at Orme Gardens ) . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | If it 'd been down to me , this park would never 've been sited here . |
| 43 | 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 |
| 44 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 45 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 46 | I 'll tell you a lovely story when we had the Queen at the day before when we had had the dress rehearsal I 'd been out to erm London to pick erm up an old lady who 's now dead , who very seldom got out and was pretty well house-bound to come and see the rehearsal as a little Sunday treat |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Stephen Hawking makes frequent references to what God might have been up to when designing the cosmos . |
| 50 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 51 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | ‘ That would have been up to her . ’ |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 57 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 58 | Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife . |
| 59 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 60 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |