Example sentences of "have been [adv prt] to [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lady Nugent-Scott has been up to her tricks again . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been up to my eyes in mannequins and haute couture . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been up to my ears , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Kerry Lee and her sister Janine known in clubland as Ritzy have been up to their ears in exams of late . |
| 7 | As manager Andy Roxburgh says : ‘ We have been up to our elbows in accomplished defenders . |
| 8 | Honestly I have been Up To My Eyes in it recently . |