Example sentences of "he be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's 'e been up to this time ? ’ asked the put-upon wife . |
| 2 | But I was right about him being up to something she thought . |
| 3 | I feel the improvement we have seen in him is down to that . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ What 's he been up to then ? ’ my dad asked as he entered the Headmaster 's office . |
| 5 | What 's he been up to now ? ’ |
| 6 | Andrew Hall 's back in the limelight now that the BBC is showing re-runs of Butterflies — but where has he been hiding and what has he been up to all this time ? |
| 7 | He been up to something but it not what they after . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Has he been up to this all night ? ’ |
| 9 | He was released with a warning but what had he been up to ? ( 1 point ) . |
| 10 | And has he been up to the top of the |
| 11 | He were n't to it . |
| 12 | Secondly , if on the other hand he were completely to subordinate himself to the new Government his influence in Parliament and the country would quickly be eroded . |
| 13 | Bunny and he were off to Midnight Mass . |
| 14 | ‘ Our friend here does not seem to appreciate that the world 's greatest detective is conducting a criminal investigation and that he is not to be thwarted . |
| 15 | Though still in Jacob 's grip , he is not to be ordered about . |
| 16 | He is not to be shut away in the workhouse . |
| 17 | He teaches that all thoughts , all concepts , all images must be buried beneath a cloud of forgetting , while our love divested of thought must rise toward God , hidden in a cloud of unknowing : ‘ He is not to be gotten or holden by thought but on'y by love . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Mr. H. is well known in public assistance circles , and the Ministry have issued a circular that he is not to be accorded any special treatment . |
| 19 | The novice teacher will require careful guidance through the option structure of the program with clear explanations and very limited demands in terms of making choices , if he is not to be distracted from the normal demands of teaching or even put off completely . |
| 20 | It is provided , however , that if a person has a right to place animals on unfenced land , he is not to be regarded as in breach of a duty of care by reason only of his placing them there , so long as the land is in an area where fencing is not customary or is common land or a town or village green . |
| 21 | During the war Grosvenor remained neutral ; he is not to be confused with his eldest son , Richard Grosvenor esquire , who played a prominent part in the royalist defence of Chester . |
| 22 | Even though he said all these things , he is not to be heard of during the final battle . |
| 23 | Mr. Bingley must also return their visit by visiting the Bennets , if he is not to be rude . |
| 24 | He is probably to be identified with the ‘ patrician ’ ( the term signifies an individual of very high standing indeed ) called Moll to whom King Eadberht and Archbishop Ecgberht gave the monasteries of Stonegrave and Coxwold in Yorkshire , seized by them from Moll 's brother , Abbot Forthred , for which action Pope Paul I reproved them . |
| 25 | For a second , I think it could be Lucker , but he is nowhere to be seen . |
| 26 | He is nowhere to be seen on the Thorsvoe , nor at Lyness in Hoy , site of an impressive collection of artefacts tracing Scapa Flow 's history as a naval base . |
| 27 | Once again , a sufferer is seen to be mad , and his fearful sense of what he is up to can be seen to dominate the book in which it is in the end defeated or controverted . |
| 28 | Not everyone will concede that there really is a single interpretation , nor that , if there is , the subject necessarily knows what he is up to . |
| 29 | ‘ Then we 'd better start to find out exactly what he is up to . |
| 30 | It is , by a long way , the greatest test yet of whether he is up to the job . |