Example sentences of "[pers pn] be up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | God knows what the two of them are up to together . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And what d' you mean , what 'ave I been up to ? |
| 3 | ‘ You are sure I am up to it ? ’ she remarked a little naughtily ; it would help if he underrated her — another of Papa 's precepts she had found worth following . |
| 4 | Now I am up to something like State 4 ( ‘ Raises dust and loose paper ’ ) , according to the only reference to the original scale that I can find in Registry , or perhaps 5 ( ‘ Small trees in leaf begin to sway ’ ) it seems to me that States 4 and 5 is where I mostly am . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm up to my eyes this morning , as you can see . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm up to here with Amore ! |
| 7 | We might as well have lunch , if I 'm up to it . |
| 8 | I 'm up to my eyes in it here . |
| 9 | At the moment I 'm up to my neck in the Camden Town murder . ’ |
| 10 | Him at the Post Office knows I 'm up to something . |
| 11 | I do n't know if it 's sex , or fear that I 'm up to some trick . |
| 12 | ‘ My people think you were taken away from New Orleans under threat and that you 're now stringing along just to see what I 'm up to . |
| 13 | If I ask questions they 'll wonder what I 'm up to but you can wheedle information out of them in general conversation . ’ |
| 14 | " Trouble is , " Slater mused , " he either does n't realise what I 'm up to , or he does n't care . |
| 15 | From what I learned at the meeting I ca n't see why he thinks I 'm up to such a task , but maybe la bête a ses raisons que la belle ne connaît pas . |
| 16 | I 'm up to my ears in work here , not least amongst my worries being a meeting at three of Headquarters staff at SHAEF presided over by General Eisenhower himself . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm up to date and I can see it 's going to change in the future really . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 'm up to this , ’ she protested . |
| 19 | You do n't care what I 'm up to ; your only concern is for Maria Luisa 's feelings . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm not sure I 'm up to them . ’ |
| 21 | I know it was fourteen by nine foot something , I 'm up to nine , ten which is exactly which she said |
| 22 | But I 'm getting a , I 'd , I 'd , I 'm up to normal now , I 've got everything back on a normal par I think . |
| 23 | Alright , I 'm up to hundred and one now . |
| 24 | ‘ AH , DOING an E H Carr , eh ? ’ , was the invariable response when , at the end of the 1960s , I told people what I was up to . |
| 25 | I kept away from him so the rest of the family would n't find out what I was up to . |
| 26 | I regularly asked Erica Brausen , the Hanover 's director , if she would visit my studio to see what I was up to but she never had time to take a taxi from Hanover Street to Highgate . |
| 27 | Carrying on and saying I was up to no good , out till that time . |
| 28 | By my second meeting , I was up to 20 words . |
| 29 | You might just remind your team that I would n't be working with IMP if they did n't think I was up to the job . |
| 30 | ‘ Listen , I was up to here with him ! ’ he said , vehemently . |