Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sales of replica kits are up a staggering 30pc this season as the designers hit the button in creative styles . |
| 32 | I always say it will be done in a fortnight ; this gives me more leeway if things go wrong and if I get the garment finished before the two weeks are up the person is usually delighted . |
| 33 | They are also thinking too much about what counts and when you do that you are up the creek , and at the moment Gloucester have not got a paddle |
| 34 | But erm it 's quite hard if you 've been up a lot at night and then you have to go and do the whole of the next day of work , but fortunately our rotas are n't too bad so we 're never on two nights in a row compared with the hospital which was quite a lot harder work . |
| 35 | He must have been up a tree . |
| 36 | You see , these up here 's been up a long time . |
| 37 | Having been up a ladder , only I could see how easy it is , you could fall off a ladder as simply as anything . |
| 38 | I was up going on the ski slope , and this is like , I 've been up a couple of times before , but it had been really cold and bi and I went at Easter , I was so like hot , but it 's still really good snow , and we went up there and I just could n't believe it , I just went dad , erm , oh , I do n't feel too good , and he just went , do n't be so stupid , and Nathan and I collapsed , I was at the front of this queue waiting for the ski lift and the whole queue just went |
| 39 | ‘ Luci Hayter looked as if she 'd been up every night for a week . |
| 40 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 41 | ‘ I just been up the school , ’ answered Nelly , undoing her coat . |
| 42 | MARRIAGES which involve a partner who has been married before are more likely to end in the divorce courts than ones between two people who have never before been up the aisle . |
| 43 | He will have learnt from Iacocca , pursued excellence , been up the organization and spent one minute as a manager . |
| 44 | Have you not been up the ramp before ? |
| 45 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 46 | I 've not been up the garden at the back but those on the front are . |
| 47 | Been up the library . |
| 48 | and I 've been up the one before that |
| 49 | very pretty and er , it looks as if she ought to have been up the disco having a dance , any way |
| 50 | after we 've been up the club |
| 51 | No and what 's happened is , he 's been up the bank and er the thing has |
| 52 | I 've been up the bath . |
| 53 | You can always tell when the clippers have been up the back of the neck . |
| 54 | It 's just been up the woman 's puss ! |
| 55 | Peering through the cobwebs at the stable clock , Umberto realized he should have been up an hour ago . |
| 56 | I 've been back a week . |
| 57 | ‘ I have n't seen either of them but I 've only been back a little while , ’ replied Melissa . |
| 58 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 59 | From the look of the pile of branches , Travis had been back a few times , but he was absent still as she added her load to the mound . |
| 60 | Yeah , been back a while have you ? |