Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will touch everyone on the raw ’ — while the young would receive it as an account of what they were up to . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew they were up to something , ’ added Mr Fractor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I just wanted to see what filth they were up to now . ’ |
| 5 | Now it turns out that the Government knew all along what they were up to but told them to lie . |
| 6 | And then the daft things they were up to : ordering booksellers to destroy their maps , and ordinary folk an' all , as if the Germans when they landed would n't know where they were going . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew what they were up to then . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The business with the whore had proved that they were up to no good . |
| 10 | A network of ex-dealers discovered what they were up to . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never known what they were up to . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If only she could get a look , see what they were up to … |
| 14 | Or had they been afraid to do so in case it drew attention to what they were up to ? |
| 15 | They were up to Lord Jim . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But none of the gunmen looked like they were up to doing very much of anything . |
| 18 | They were up to 78 per cent full power . |
| 19 | Yeah , yeah , oh yes of course a lot of the people were , that were in the we were in under the balcony but they were up to their knees in plaster and goodness knows what that had come out of the roof they could n't move it all dropped round them . |
| 20 | Becky cautioned him against rushing into another venture before they had discovered what their profit margins were like , and then only if the rather elderly assistants knew what they were up to . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The police thought they were on to something when , following an anonymous ‘ phone call , they went to a butcher 's shop . |
| 23 | Eventually , the management decided they were on to a loser , and the matter was allowed to sink into history . |
| 24 | Now they were on to stones . |
| 25 | This conclusion was the result of misinterpretation of data , presumably prompted by the scientists ' preconceived idea that they were on to something very important . |
| 26 | But Ianthe seemed not to know how to answer Sophia 's remark and soon they were on to another topic — the strangers in the parish and whether it was likely that they would come to church . |
| 27 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 28 | ‘ They were on to it quickly . |
| 29 | They would know they were on to something . ’ |
| 30 | Burroughs and Gysin practised their own form of sorcery using tape recorders , with results impressive enough to convince them they were on to something . |