Example sentences of "[vb past] been up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 'd been up on Water Gypsy 's superstructure you 'd have been in the canal by now . ’ |
| 2 | The soles of her feet and the then they knew she 'd been up on her feet you know . |
| 3 | And he spent a lot of evenings with Thacker , drinking and — well , they found out later what else he 'd been up to . |
| 4 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |
| 5 | Well he worked there and when I was we 'd left er Road , we 'd been up to up up to Terrace . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | So that was what he 'd been up to in Berlin , Loretta thought . |
| 8 | She had to decide before she saw her parents again if she should confess all that she 'd been up to . |
| 9 | so erm tt so anyway Saturday we gets to Durham , she 's says oh your Alex was just been on phone , she 'd , she 'd been up to school to do a hockey match |
| 10 | Although I did n't , he he , I did n't have time to ask him what the hell he 'd been up to . |
| 11 | So he did n't know what she 'd been up to . |
| 12 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 13 | Oh she 'd been up to Pearks |
| 14 | she 'd been up to Scotland |
| 15 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 16 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 17 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 18 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 19 | It looked as if she 'd been up in the loft for something , which I suppose was rather rash in her state of health . |
| 20 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 21 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 22 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 23 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 24 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 25 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |
| 26 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |
| 27 | Vivien had been up at St Hugh 's , so I was looking forward to her being an excellent guide . |
| 28 | The guys who had been up at Lockerbie , after Pan Am 103 , working alongside the British police , they did n't know how lucky they 'd been … |
| 29 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 30 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |