Example sentences of "have been up " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might have been up there playing and somebody like me or a young talent scout from a record company . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He still jumped well , but if it had been a bit softer he would have been up there . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Peering through the cobwebs at the stable clock , Umberto realized he should have been up an hour ago . |
| 6 | It must have been up there for years , it weighed at least 14 carats and sat like a throbbing lime fruit pastille on the back of my unmoving hand . |
| 7 | And the bobbies may have been up there and they may just have overlooked something . |
| 8 | She 'd have been up there on her Sunday off , bursting with the news . |
| 9 | He was excluded on these grounds when the eliminators were announced even though , by the time the fights would have taken place , his ten years would have been up . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'd have been up there with the best of them by now . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 12 | They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time . |
| 13 | If he 'd decided to look in , and seen her fully dressed , the game would have been up . |
| 14 | Still , if he had not been called away he would have been up here , no doubt , demanding to see progress . |
| 15 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
| 16 | Stephen Hawking makes frequent references to what God might have been up to when designing the cosmos . |
| 17 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 18 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 19 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 20 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 21 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 22 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 23 | He must have been up a tree . |
| 24 | ‘ That would have been up to her . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They should n't have been up there at all ! ’ said the Rais . |
| 26 | " You must have been up early . |
| 27 | I ca n't recall precisely but I , I imagine yes it would have been up , I would have asked for it to be updated at September eighty seven as well |
| 28 | Some of the passengers must have been up just after dawn to watch the huge liner ease its way gently alongside the dock , and those who were n't were beginning gradually to emerge on the upper decks , or to enjoy breakfast by one of the pools . |
| 29 | Robert might have been up in the house . |
| 30 | erm I just put that up , which should have been up while we were talking about money , which is erm the beautiful Oxford crown , which you can see downstairs , which was minted at New Inn Hall , the college that emptied , and was turned into the mint , mostly from college plate . |