Example sentences of "have been up to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lady Nugent-Scott has been up to her tricks again . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Jegsy , who appears with comic John Hegley at the Everyman next Thursday has been up to his neck in work at the seaside . |
| 3 | ‘ Trading in the first quarter of our new financial year has been up to our expectations and is well ahead of the same period last year , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ That would have been up to her . ’ |
| 5 | My own memory is vivid : it was a bitterly cold morning , below - 14° , and the ground I trod , in which only days before I would have been up to my knees in mud , was as solid as rock . |
| 6 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 7 | So presumably either Pickerage was lying about his date with Hilary Frome , or the pair had been up to something the whole of Sunday . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been up to my room that afternoon and asked my advice . |
| 10 | You 've been up to something . |
| 11 | See she , she came around cos erm I 've been up to her , her friends place to and give him a bit of a telling off like and that and erm she came to John 's house and I said , why are calling ? |
| 12 | I 've been up to my eyes in mannequins and haute couture . ’ |
| 13 | Then he admitted as he shovelled manure at a tree-planting ceremoney in his Huntingdon constituency : ‘ It occurs to me I 've been up to my neck in this stuff for the last month . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been up to my ears , ’ he says . |
| 15 | WHILE our attention has been on the General Election and its aftermath , the Serbs have been up to their old tricks . |
| 16 | Kerry Lee and her sister Janine known in clubland as Ritzy have been up to their ears in exams of late . |
| 17 | So yourself and O'Gorman have been up to something ? |
| 18 | As manager Andy Roxburgh says : ‘ We have been up to our elbows in accomplished defenders . |
| 19 | Honestly I have been Up To My Eyes in it recently . |
| 20 | She 's been up to his shop and John says , sh she 's come up early |