Example sentences of "[was/were] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 2 | yeah , it was , the bit I saw was that policeman when he goes although those two were up to no good |
| 3 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 4 | No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks , but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves . |
| 5 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 6 | I thought you were up with the latest fashions . |
| 7 | They were up against the absolute certainty of guilt expressed by all the parties weighed against them . |
| 8 | ‘ It was funny to see those agents ’ faces when they discovered they were up against the famous Marc Vila ! |
| 9 | We were not alone in our dilemma , for all the other prahus in the fleet around us were up against the same deadline . |
| 10 | Each time Rugby Canada were up against the big names . |
| 11 | We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train . |
| 12 | At Penguin , trading profits were £26.3m — and increase of 101% or , if the impact of the Smithmark and New York lease problems of the previous year is excluded , of 31.5% — while at Longman , operating profits were up by a hefty 38% , to £23.5m . |
| 13 | Trouble was he lived at Selsit , which was up over the Pennine Way , across the high moor , and it meant a three-hour trek there and back . |
| 14 | She hopped clear and opened her wings and in one sudden jump was up on the bare branch . |
| 15 | The portrait of Melusina hung above the fireplace and this year 's cat calendar was up on the left-hand wall . |
| 16 | Harris , his coachman , was up on the driving box , while Lord John 's groom and valet were bringing on the saddle horses behind . |
| 17 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 18 | Geoffrey Markham , the youngest Cumbermound boy , was up at the same time and they and the Bishop 's son , Thomas , formed something of a set . |
| 19 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
| 20 | He was up for a western , and he had the long hair , but after school he went to a barber and had his head shaved . |
| 21 | ‘ She was up for the entire morning , and this afternoon she must rest . |
| 22 | The subject of a bad reference can sue the referee for libel but has to show the referee was up to no good : spite , ill-will or some improper motive will do . |
| 23 | ( Gary was the only exception I knew to this rule , and then only when he was up to no good ) . ’ |
| 24 | It fell to Warrant Officer Dunston to ensure the service was up to an impeccable standard , not an easy task in the boiling heat of the summer of 1989 . |
| 25 | If it was up to the Labour Party it 'd be halved in two . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Then he was up to the silvery layer of the surface . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The scene , a stag-party 's post-pub , pre-dancing meal , was not going well : it was up to the fourteenth take , and the continuity man was looking frazzled . |
| 30 | 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 . |