Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a brief stay at Kyle we were soon up to the house and burn near Sandaig Lighthouse , the undisclosed setting , I suspect , of Gavin Maxwell 's otter book " Ring of Bright Water " , later to be filmed . |
| 2 | She hoped his maps were more up to date and accurate than the one she had bought at the newsstand . |
| 3 | Bastard Russians were still up to their old tricks . |
| 4 | Bill Westland , environmental projects manager for Darlington Council , disclosed the ploy to the authority 's working party on the control of dogs yesterday after announcing there were still up to 50 unregistered dangerous dogs , such as pit bull terriers and Japanese Tosas , being kept in the town . |
| 5 | Oh , it was easy to see what they were both up to ! |
| 6 | This implies that there were probably up to 300 injectors among Wirral 's known heroin users in 1985–6 , enough to make the potential spread of HIV infection in Wirral an issue of major concern . |
| 7 | If it were purely up to me , I might well feel disposed to tell you everything you wanted to know . ’ |
| 8 | Since previously only about one in three advertised charter trains actually ran ( there were indeed up to a hundred independent rail tour operators ) , the new regime immediately brought a crop of casualties , including in 1985 the Rail Tour Operators Association , the very organisation which had been established at Ward 's insistence to negotiate train hire on behalf of all independents . |
| 9 | ‘ She does n't get out much , ’ said Shirley flatly : a statement at once accurate and wonderfully , gloriously misleading : ‘ she does n't get out much ’ , an acceptable phrase , a dull little coin , an everyday coin , suggesting a mild , an ordinary , a commonplace disinclination , for in Northam ‘ getting out ’ was in many circles regarded as suspect , as improper , as leading to no good ( those making merry in Breasbrough , for example , were undoubtedly up to no good ) — a freak tolerated in the young , though with much grumbling , but considered dissolute , wayward , against nature in their elders . |
| 10 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 11 | Many of the current members joined up after catching one of the club 's many demonstrations , or parents came to the Royal Commonwealth Pool to see what their kids were actually up to — and stayed . |
| 12 | The Lowsons were reckoned to be very good farmers and they were very up to date . |
| 13 | I really regret it now , but at the time everything was right up to there , you know . |
| 14 | I mean it was right up to the wall , and the we 'd have bothered . |
| 15 | It was right up to his mouth when Lamarr Dean nudged him , reaching out and pushing him a little , and the mescal spilled over the Apache 's chin and down the front of his vest . |
| 16 | The wa the water was right up to there . |
| 17 | er , and if you , not quite as short as you did last time , you see when you combed it up last time it was right up to the top just a little bit |
| 18 | He was right up to it so I said well I do n't know whether you 're going round to view the house cos that 's on the market are n't they ? |
| 19 | Yeah , and it was right up to his windscreen |
| 20 | and there was this dump truck sort of about two foot out , he 'd obviously changed his mind and sort of had er stopped , had a Reliant Regal , you know a Reliant Regal it was right up to the windscreen and there was a pile of glass in , you know everywhere it was |
| 21 | Senna also made a brilliant start from eighth on the grid and was swiftly up to fifth and then fourth when he overcame Alesi in a wheel-to-wheel battle down the back section . |
| 22 | It was all up to Coleman . |
| 23 | Hitler was obviously up to no good . |
| 24 | He added that it was entirely up to her whether she chose to assist . |
| 25 | Yes they gave us a drink of beer and that erm and that was entirely up to them and erm . |
| 26 | It was entirely up to her . |
| 27 | ‘ Yesterday it was only up to my knees : by tomorrow or the next day it 'll be this high at least . ’ |
| 28 | In comparison , the risk for pipe and cigar smokers was only up to 10% higher than nonsmokers . |
| 29 | He was soon up to his old tricks and with a view to recouping his losses he chartered a yacht called Filden I from its unsuspecting and perfectly respectable owner . |
| 30 | It was largely up to NME to cover all the bases at the time . |