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 . ’ |