Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 2 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 3 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 4 | ‘ Not been up to anything . |
| 5 | Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par . |
| 6 | And our all round cricket has not been up to standard . ’ |
| 7 | He had not been back to Stowe since the day he left , almost seventeen years before . |
| 8 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 9 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 10 | Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast . |
| 11 | A porter had already been up to the suite with their luggage , she noted , as she observed that off the sitting-room — with French windows to a balcony between — were two other doors . |
| 12 | Lucy , who has 13 grandchildren and two great grandsons , added : ‘ I have already been down to my flat and have had a laugh with my friends . |
| 13 | Has he already been out to dinner with someone before coming here ? |
| 14 | I 've just been up to Tesco 's . |
| 15 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've just been on to Mallachy . |
| 17 | He 's just been on to Maureen , got a couple of orders bearings and an Anglia contact . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |
| 19 | Neville , fresh in from points east , had just been down to Carnaby Street and looked the very model of the new generation . |
| 20 | Hiya yeah yeah oh yeah I 've just been down to oh we 've only just got in |
| 21 | He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake ! |
| 22 | I 've just been down to the grubber . |
| 23 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 24 | Have you ever been up to Clogwyn Du'r Arddu in the pouring rain and the vilest weather ? |
| 25 | Right and that was the result we generally observe in agriculture in that , for example , if you have ever been down to er the West the West of England where there is a number of apple growers you will find that when there is a very big harvest , right , apples just left to rot on trees , right , simply because it is not worth farmers harvesting er those apples because they wo n't get er price to cover their average vanable costs . |
| 26 | I was allowed up to chatter with the older men about the good old days on Le Manche , when my grandfather had not only held serious philosophical and religious conversation with les pecheures over his loud hailer , but had also been in to Boulogne harbour as thanksgiving for a market or two in Hastings at needy times . |
| 27 | We leave , saddened by the plight and determined to come for longer the next time , to stay through a winter and spring , to find out what that old woman had really been up to holding that white sheet up to the Northern Lights . |
| 28 | I decided to give her Arsenicum Album LM1 in a 100ml bottle and within 1 month she was feeling much better , her period had been the best she could remember and she 'd even been out to a party . |
| 29 | But it had n't been up to him . |
| 30 | If tonight 's exhibition was anything to go by , they moaned , Faust have n't been up to much during their long absence and have sadly allowed lesser talents to steal much of their thunder . |