Example sentences of "he [be] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 What 's the betting he 's up to no good , and that he felt Dan Pearson got to know too much about him and needed to be silenced ? ’
2 He 's up to the middle class !
3 I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’
4 British under 16 champion twice now he 's off to the European Championships …
5 He 's down to the fucking , it 's taken him more than three hours !
6 ( Gary was the only exception I knew to this rule , and then only when he was up to no good ) . ’
7 Then he was up to the silvery layer of the surface .
8 His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong .
9 Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing .
10 Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal .
11 Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing .
12 Now he was off to a nine p.m. to one a.m .
13 Each evening he was off to the local pub The Royal Oak where he apparently became the life and soul of the party .
14 MIKE ATHERTON 's hope of retaining his England Test place took a blow today , when he was out to a careless stroke in front of Graham Gooch .
15 He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out .
16 By the time he was 22 he was down to a 9 handicap and was off 2 when he turned professional at the start of last year .
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