Example sentences of "what they be [adv] to " in BNC.
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1 | I feel it is my need as an American to address and educate other Americans about what they 're up to . ’ |
2 | Half my clients do n't even want to let me know what they 're up to . |
3 | We do n't know what they 're up to . ’ |
4 | Old boys write in from various parts of the world and say what they 're up to . |
5 | I want to find out what they 're up to . ’ |
6 | I got to stick with the President and all I can think about.is those two and what they 're up to . |
7 | We have learned , for example , that when you think of your University days , your department and your friends feature most frequently in your thoughts ; that you prefer the idea of reunions of your department or your contemporaries to University-wide events ; that you like the idea of the regional ‘ roadshows ’ ; and that you very much want to know where all your old friends are and what they 're up to now . |
8 | But does this mean that our friends from Dixieland — the Intelligence Service lived south of the river ‘ — are going to give us a hint of what they 're up to these days ? ’ |
9 | ‘ We hope everybody will be giving hints of what they 're up to , ’ Husband said smoothly . |
10 | ‘ That 's one of the main reasons for having the newsletter in the first place , because they 're all working to the same end , but it is n't always easy to know what they 're up to , ’ says Current Account editor Brigid Cleary . |
11 | Who knows what they 're up to by now . |
12 | Sir , we ought to have them nearby us , where we can see what they 're up to … where they ca n't betray us without destroying themselves as well . |
13 | This motion is about recognizing what they 're up to and also the valuable service offered to stewards and members through our regional and national education courses . |
14 | I see what they 're up to . |
15 | I 'm to explain roughly what they 're up to , so I invited them in , they then explained exactly what they were up to , fine I 'll do it . |
16 | I do n't know what they 're up to , I 'll say |
17 | you know erm daily , just so we know when somebody does appear , if they 're , you know , if we , you know , wanted a chat with them or , you know , to see what they 're up to these days that yeah but I w er yeah yeah . |
18 | They may giggle and act as though they have not a serious thought in their heads , but they know exactly what they are up to . |
19 | Perhaps the most urgent is that of how the elements in ideal-type models relate to actors ' own beliefs about what they are up to . |
20 | He will touch everyone on the raw ’ — while the young would receive it as an account of what they were up to . |
21 | I did n't want them in my house or my life , but I did want to know what they were up to , and no-one would tell me . |
22 | Now it turns out that the Government knew all along what they were up to but told them to lie . |
23 | ‘ I knew what they were up to then . |
24 | Whatever the relative order of gesture , speech and structure thereof , my quasi-conceptual evolutionary thesis would still be pressing : iterable contribution to significant structure across the whole language , be it gestural or symbolic , is almost certain to have needed a shrewd intentional grasp by communicators of what they were up to . |
25 | A network of ex-dealers discovered what they were up to . |
26 | ‘ I 've never known what they were up to . |
27 | And when you took A resin straight , well then , yeah , then you could see it , see what they were up to , bribing riggers , faking reports . |
28 | If only she could get a look , see what they were up to … |
29 | Or had they been afraid to do so in case it drew attention to what they were up to ? |
30 | He had given up dashing through to adjoining rooms running to look downstairs or above , craning his head out of windows to look for hovering helicopters , but he knew they were there somewhere all right , he knew what they were up to . |