Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they might 've been up to . |
| 2 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 3 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 4 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 5 | Then again , his fast-bowling policy , more than any other factor , has hastened the decline of the spinner , a decline that has been hugely to the game 's detriment ; and with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of young speed men reaching the Test team and creating further successes , there is little sign that the decline might be halted . |
| 6 | The appeal has been shamelessly to the pocket calculator , not the heart ; to the purse , not to pride . |
| 7 | But , so long as the net inflow of foreign exchange deposits is positive , as it has been up to now , there is no net withdrawal of funds from the National Bank . |
| 8 | To see what he has been up to lately visit Curt Marcus before the 31st of the month . |
| 9 | To see what he has been up to lately , visit Nancy Hoffman before 2 December . |
| 10 | That puppy-dog expression of one who has been up to mischief and is worried you will find out but knows you will forgive him anyway . |
| 11 | ‘ Lady Nugent-Scott has been up to her tricks again . |
| 12 | Do you think they 'll enjoy reading about the things their little boy has been up to ? ’ |
| 13 | We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Jegsy , who appears with comic John Hegley at the Everyman next Thursday has been up to his neck in work at the seaside . |
| 16 | Service spokeswoman Rosemary Sandford said : ‘ It 's a very important appeal and it reflects how popular the service has been up to now . |
| 17 | It has been up to nine or ten pound for |
| 18 | In the second part of our brand new series , Mary Thomson describes what she has been up to , and charts the progress of her promising baby , King Basil . |
| 19 | Service intervals of 3000 miles , plus an initial 500-mile check , mean the car has been back to the Dartford factory five times since April and have produced bills for a total of £826.05 , although £96.50 of that was to replace one of the 205/45 ZR16 Goodyear Eagle GS-D tyres , which had collected a nail in its tread . |
| 20 | Iain saying he has been back to the body , and looked into Christopher 's eyes . |
| 21 | Forty-five years later Erika Barnes has been back to the village , now a thriving community . |
| 22 | He has been back to Wirral once since then , in 1988 . |
| 23 | The man who ran the world 's first sub-four minute mile has been back to the track where he made history nearly thirty five years ago . |
| 24 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 25 | English fans feel that the emphasis on fast bowling in the last fifteen years has been greatly to the game 's detriment , leading to the continuing decline of the spinner , a lack of variety , slow over rates , broken bones and a situation where batting is more about courage than skill . |
| 26 | rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing |
| 27 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 28 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 29 | And he spent a lot of evenings with Thacker , drinking and — well , they found out later what else he 'd been up to . |
| 30 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |