Example sentences of "been up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , what on earth have you been up to all this time ? ’ |
| 2 | Wanted to put her arm around her , hug her , what the hell had super-brat been up to now ? |
| 3 | Have you ever been up to Clogwyn Du'r Arddu in the pouring rain and the vilest weather ? |
| 4 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 6 | We leave , saddened by the plight and determined to come for longer the next time , to stay through a winter and spring , to find out what that old woman had really been up to holding that white sheet up to the Northern Lights . |
| 7 | It did n't look as if Hatton had been up to much on that Monday morning in Leeds , but you never knew . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So yourself and O'Gorman have been up to something ? |
| 10 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 11 | ‘ There are many instances where UK investment and product costs have been up to twenty per cent below other European countries , but the investment has still been located on the continent because of unfair political pressures and highly discriminatory practices , ’ he added to gasps of pained surprise . |
| 12 | Wait until he knows what else you 've been up to ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Zam , what you been up to ? ’ |
| 14 | And what 've you been up to ? ’ patience ! |
| 15 | And he spent a lot of evenings with Thacker , drinking and — well , they found out later what else he 'd been up to . |
| 16 | WHILE our attention has been on the General Election and its aftermath , the Serbs have been up to their old tricks . |
| 17 | He was perfectly happy that way , or had been up to now , but it was n't a body to put to competition . |
| 18 | Nutty changed , and felt obliged to confess to her parents what she had been up to . |
| 19 | But , so long as the net inflow of foreign exchange deposits is positive , as it has been up to now , there is no net withdrawal of funds from the National Bank . |
| 20 | Honestly I have been Up To My Eyes in it recently . |
| 21 | ‘ What the hell have you been up to ? ’ she demanded , glancing down the road as if she expected Herbie Connors to appear on his bike . |
| 22 | I 've been up to my eyes in mannequins and haute couture . ’ |
| 23 | What have you been up to ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Well , it will surprise you to know that Mrs Glen thought I , me , myself , personally had been up to no good . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Had the Editor really meant Hank , and , if so , what had Hank been up to ? |
| 30 | Have you been up to the house yet ? ’ |