Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |
| 2 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 3 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 4 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 5 | I 've been on to the P.L.A . |
| 6 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 7 | Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ? |
| 8 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 9 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 10 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 11 | You definitely are on along the right lines . |
| 12 | And the programmes that are on during the day , but erm this sort of thing is slightly more important I feel . |
| 13 | I do n't want to turn round cos the lights are on at the moment . |
| 14 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet . |
| 17 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 18 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |
| 20 | Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife . |
| 21 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 27 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
| 28 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 29 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 30 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |