Example sentences of "had been [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't look as if Hatton had been up to much on that Monday morning in Leeds , but you never knew . |
| 2 | By the time she reappeared , she had been up to Scotland and back , to spend the weekend with Charles at the Queen Mother 's home , Birkhall . |
| 3 | He was perfectly happy that way , or had been up to now , but it was n't a body to put to competition . |
| 4 | Nutty changed , and felt obliged to confess to her parents what she had been up to . |
| 5 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 6 | Well , it will surprise you to know that Mrs Glen thought I , me , myself , personally had been up to no good . |
| 7 | Others , on some of the more northerly islands , away from the emotion and strength of feeling in South Ronaldsay , were still murmuring that ‘ there 's no smoke without fire ’ and speculating on what the parents of the nine children had been up to . |
| 8 | Benny heard from Patsy that the Healys had been up to Dublin to look for a child to adopt but they had n't got one because Mr Healy had a weak chest . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was that , or frustration , or , more probable still , a queer kind of prudery — he would rather his mother thought him a brute than realize what we had been up to — that made him hit me . |
| 10 | And the day after Holly had been up to London to apply from the Consulate for a visa there had been the telephone call at Letterworth Engineering . |
| 11 | North Korea would probably still have to admit , as Iraq has done under UN sanctions and as South Africa did voluntarily , that it had been up to no good . |
| 12 | They continued their research , but their reports were no longer published ( as they had been up to 1948 ) ; and , at a time when cost research was more clearly needed than ever before , Schiller 's team was starved of funds and talent . |
| 13 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 14 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't think , ’ said Betty , looking suspiciously at Lydia , as though wondering what she had been up to while her own attention had been elsewhere . |
| 16 | It was not , at present , the eternal verities which were occupying her mind but the simple gnawing question of what Memet had been up to behind her back . |
| 17 | She could n't stand Clarissa who , in the past , had quite often perceived it as her duty to inform Scarlet that her daughter , in one way or another , had been up to no good . |
| 18 | He made a mental note to check on what the builder had been up to . |
| 19 | There were interruptions : Oliver coming to ask what Ruby Dobby had been up to , and Shildon asking Rain for the latest news about the murder . |
| 20 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 21 | Vaguely she wondered if Kate and Stephen had been up to mischief . |
| 22 | He discovered from his eunuchs what Roshanara had been up to , and , despite her support for him over many years , he disgraced her . |
| 23 | So presumably either Pickerage was lying about his date with Hilary Frome , or the pair had been up to something the whole of Sunday . |
| 24 | As the big sheriff had volunteered no further explanation , Grant decided to wait and see exactly what Springfield was up to — or more accurately had been up to . |
| 25 | Not content with blackguarding him in the columns of the local rag , him and his silly daughter 's bum , the one-time Chief Citizen of the Borough had been up to no good with a girl young enough to be Grace 's sister , and in the Grand Hotel , and at a Conservative Party conference of all places . |
| 26 | He had been up to my room that afternoon and asked my advice . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , Fenella takes her duties terribly seriously and would have a minute by minute report of what Springsteen had been up to while I 'd been away . |
| 28 | He had a fair idea of what Heydrich had been up to in Aalborg , and he hoped he might get confirmation this way . |
| 29 | He was sure they knew something , some trick that that idle , rascally District Chief had been up to . |
| 30 | If it had been up to me , you 'd have one police communication room , not two , because I 've worked in operations control , and you want to have a single control room for your authority , if any other system is less efficient than that . |