Example sentences of "[vb past] be up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he spent a lot of evenings with Thacker , drinking and — well , they found out later what else he 'd been up to . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well he worked there and when I was we 'd left er Road , we 'd been up to up up to Terrace . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | So that was what he 'd been up to in Berlin , Loretta thought . |
| 6 | She had to decide before she saw her parents again if she should confess all that she 'd been up to . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Although I did n't , he he , I did n't have time to ask him what the hell he 'd been up to . |
| 9 | So he did n't know what she 'd been up to . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Oh she 'd been up to Pearks |
| 12 | she 'd been up to Scotland |
| 13 | What you did was up to you , was n't it ? |
| 14 | And er he was just delighted to be back of course and first thing he did was up to the house and had a he had a look round and he was in the byre and had these two awful grand . |
| 15 | It did n't look as if Hatton had been up to much on that Monday morning in Leeds , but you never knew . |
| 16 | By the time she reappeared , she had been up to Scotland and back , to spend the weekend with Charles at the Queen Mother 's home , Birkhall . |
| 17 | He was perfectly happy that way , or had been up to now , but it was n't a body to put to competition . |
| 18 | Nutty changed , and felt obliged to confess to her parents what she had been up to . |
| 19 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 20 | Well , it will surprise you to know that Mrs Glen thought I , me , myself , personally had been up to no good . |
| 21 | Others , on some of the more northerly islands , away from the emotion and strength of feeling in South Ronaldsay , were still murmuring that ‘ there 's no smoke without fire ’ and speculating on what the parents of the nine children had been up to . |
| 22 | Benny heard from Patsy that the Healys had been up to Dublin to look for a child to adopt but they had n't got one because Mr Healy had a weak chest . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was that , or frustration , or , more probable still , a queer kind of prudery — he would rather his mother thought him a brute than realize what we had been up to — that made him hit me . |
| 24 | And the day after Holly had been up to London to apply from the Consulate for a visa there had been the telephone call at Letterworth Engineering . |
| 25 | North Korea would probably still have to admit , as Iraq has done under UN sanctions and as South Africa did voluntarily , that it had been up to no good . |
| 26 | They continued their research , but their reports were no longer published ( as they had been up to 1948 ) ; and , at a time when cost research was more clearly needed than ever before , Schiller 's team was starved of funds and talent . |
| 27 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 28 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't think , ’ said Betty , looking suspiciously at Lydia , as though wondering what she had been up to while her own attention had been elsewhere . |
| 30 | It was not , at present , the eternal verities which were occupying her mind but the simple gnawing question of what Memet had been up to behind her back . |