Example sentences of "[vb -s] been up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But no matter , and who am I to complain , certainly not to Jan , the lady of the maggots , who has been up since four and already whisked through acres of office carpet , scads of bins and oceans of scummy cups .
2 Top End , which supports X/Open 's Distributed Transaction Processing model and XA Resource Manager interface , has been up on NCR 3000s since May of 1991 , and is now in use at multiple sites .
3 But , so long as the net inflow of foreign exchange deposits is positive , as it has been up to now , there is no net withdrawal of funds from the National Bank .
4 To see what he has been up to lately visit Curt Marcus before the 31st of the month .
5 To see what he has been up to lately , visit Nancy Hoffman before 2 December .
6 That puppy-dog expression of one who has been up to mischief and is worried you will find out but knows you will forgive him anyway .
7 ‘ Lady Nugent-Scott has been up to her tricks again .
8 Do you think they 'll enjoy reading about the things their little boy has been up to ? ’
9 We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year .
10 ‘ Trading in the first quarter of our new financial year has been up to our expectations and is well ahead of the same period last year , ’ he said .
11 Meanwhile , Jegsy , who appears with comic John Hegley at the Everyman next Thursday has been up to his neck in work at the seaside .
12 Service spokeswoman Rosemary Sandford said : ‘ It 's a very important appeal and it reflects how popular the service has been up to now .
13 It has been up to nine or ten pound for
14 In the second part of our brand new series , Mary Thomson describes what she has been up to , and charts the progress of her promising baby , King Basil .
15 In practical terms they call for the government to help buy and protect the Mar Lodge Estate — 77 000 acre plot of land in the Cairngorms which has been up for sale since May .
16 Three are straightforward KH-11s , of which one has been up for more than six years ; three are advanced KH-11s .
17 So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then .
18 The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year .
19 Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres .
20 Oh all of my stuff has been up in the loft it 's like you say , I mean if they 've been double wrapped and everything and you wash them
21 coach and if it comes out like Helen and Pete like that and they 're , they 're gone and the others have n't , no wonder it 's been up on your wall
22 ‘ I daresay she 's been up since three , being horsey . ’ )
23 Even though he 's been up since six at his job in the City and is absolutely starving , the Hooray must wait until 10.30pm and then ‘ gair-airt-dinner ’ or ‘ gair-fair-n-Indi ’ .
24 but Reggie , Reggie will come in and go straight to bed , he 's been up since about quarter to four
25 She 's been up since six and he is up
26 ‘ He 's been up at the School !
27 ‘ Och , that 's been up for days , ’ replied Tam scornfully .
28 Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ?
29 Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock .
30 But we 'll know exactly what she 's been up to when we get a look at her Jolly Roger . ’
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