Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he spent a lot of evenings with Thacker , drinking and — well , they found out later what else he 'd been up to . |
| 2 | ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily . |
| 3 | So that was what he 'd been up to in Berlin , Loretta thought . |
| 4 | Although I did n't , he he , I did n't have time to ask him what the hell he 'd been up to . |
| 5 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 6 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 7 | And er he was just delighted to be back of course and first thing he did was up to the house and had a he had a look round and he was in the byre and had these two awful grand . |
| 8 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 9 | He had been up to my room that afternoon and asked my advice . |
| 10 | She could n't care less what he had been up to , but quite suddenly it had become imperative that she steer the conversation away from herself and divert the interest he was showing in her . |
| 11 | He kicked his holdall out of the way and flopped down on to the sofa , quite exhausted by whatever he had been up to since the day he left . |
| 12 | In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch . |