Example sentences of "[verb] been up to " in BNC.

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1 What they might 've been up to .
2 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 .
3 To see what he has been up to lately visit Curt Marcus before the 31st of the month .
4 To see what he has been up to lately , visit Nancy Hoffman before 2 December .
5 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 .
6 ‘ Lady Nugent-Scott has been up to her tricks again .
7 Do you think they 'll enjoy reading about the things their little boy has been up to ? ’
8 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 .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 Meanwhile , Jegsy , who appears with comic John Hegley at the Everyman next Thursday has been up to his neck in work at the seaside .
11 Service spokeswoman Rosemary Sandford said : ‘ It 's a very important appeal and it reflects how popular the service has been up to now .
12 It has been up to nine or ten pound for
13 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 .
14 And he spent a lot of evenings with Thacker , drinking and — well , they found out later what else he 'd been up to .
15 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 .
16 Well he worked there and when I was we 'd left er Road , we 'd been up to up up to Terrace .
17 ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily .
18 So that was what he 'd been up to in Berlin , Loretta thought .
19 She had to decide before she saw her parents again if she should confess all that she 'd been up to .
20 so erm tt so anyway Saturday we gets to Durham , she 's says oh your Alex was just been on phone , she 'd , she 'd been up to school to do a hockey match
21 Although I did n't , he he , I did n't have time to ask him what the hell he 'd been up to .
22 So he did n't know what she 'd been up to .
23 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
24 Oh she 'd been up to Pearks
25 she 'd been up to Scotland
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Stephen Hawking makes frequent references to what God might have been up to when designing the cosmos .
29 This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day .
30 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 .
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