Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] to the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Meanwhile , until we know what the Kamalians are up to the more people we have on the job the better . |
| 2 | No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks , but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves . |
| 3 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 4 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 5 | It was back to the same old theme . |