Example sentences of "he [verb] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see what he has been up to lately visit Curt Marcus before the 31st of the month . |
| 2 | To see what he has been up to lately , visit Nancy Hoffman before 2 December . |
| 3 | Iain saying he has been back to the body , and looked into Christopher 's eyes . |
| 4 | He has been back to Wirral once since then , in 1988 . |
| 5 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 6 | And he spent a lot of evenings with Thacker , drinking and — well , they found out later what else he 'd been up to . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | So that was what he 'd been up to in Berlin , Loretta thought . |
| 9 | Although I did n't , he he , I did n't have time to ask him what the hell he 'd been up to . |
| 10 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 11 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 12 | He 'd been once to the one on the ground floor , that was all . |
| 13 | The allegiance he needed was now to hand . |
| 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 | He had been neither to a great school nor to a university . |
| 16 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 17 | He had been up to my room that afternoon and asked my advice . |
| 18 | She could n't care less what he had been up to , but quite suddenly it had become imperative that she steer the conversation away from herself and divert the interest he was showing in her . |
| 19 | He kicked his holdall out of the way and flopped down on to the sofa , quite exhausted by whatever he had been up to since the day he left . |
| 20 | In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch . |
| 21 | He had been across to New York with The Lady 's Not For Burning , just before the Stratford season . |
| 22 | He had been twice to Iraq . |
| 23 | But indifference to the truth of what he publishes is not to be equated with carelessness , impulsiveness or irrationality in arriving at a positive belief that it is true . |
| 24 | ‘ If Devlin is as smart as I think he is , Jack , he 's been on to Frear from the start . |
| 25 | So , if you ever see anyone roaring along the street on a motorbike wearing a suit of armour with a carpet in his mouth and being pelted with armadillos , you 'll know what he 's been up to … |
| 26 | I saw him — never mind how , I 'll tell you later , but the point is , he 's been up to the house and taken things . |
| 27 | Anna was inclined to think that most of them would only notice if he looked disgustingly well , when they could say suspiciously to one another , The Rector looks all right , does n't he , wonder what he 's been up to ? |
| 28 | I wonder what he 's been up to now ? ’ |
| 29 | I do n't know what he 's been up to , |
| 30 | ‘ After all he 's been up to ? |