Example sentences of "been up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , what on earth have you been up to all this time ? ’ |
| 2 | This retreat into the safety of headquarters with its separation from reality is the route for these ‘ bastards with no teeth ’ ; it is the rightful place for those ‘ nine-til-five administrators who turn up when real polises have been up and at it for hours , and then ask their daft questions because of their lack of practical experience ’ . |
| 3 | Wanted to put her arm around her , hug her , what the hell had super-brat been up to now ? |
| 4 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 5 | Have you ever been up to Clogwyn Du'r Arddu in the pouring rain and the vilest weather ? |
| 6 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You might have been up there playing and somebody like me or a young talent scout from a record company . |
| 10 | We leave , saddened by the plight and determined to come for longer the next time , to stay through a winter and spring , to find out what that old woman had really been up to holding that white sheet up to the Northern Lights . |
| 11 | It did n't look as if Hatton had been up to much on that Monday morning in Leeds , but you never knew . |
| 12 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 13 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 14 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 15 | By the time she reappeared , she had been up to Scotland and back , to spend the weekend with Charles at the Queen Mother 's home , Birkhall . |
| 16 | So yourself and O'Gorman have been up to something ? |
| 17 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Three are straightforward KH-11s , of which one has been up for more than six years ; three are advanced KH-11s . |
| 20 | Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion . |
| 21 | Margaret Thatcher had been up early that morning — early even by her standards — to visit Liverpool . |
| 22 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 23 | ‘ And if you do n't get out of here I 'll tell him you 've been up in the woods with a dog . |
| 24 | After his Mum had been up to say goodnight to him , Philip lay a long time thinking and he could n't keep out of his mind the thin chalk letters on the pavement in Hill View . |
| 25 | He flipped back through the book looking at his entries , neat , and pages of notes about the pheasants and the weather and the times he 'd been up there . |
| 26 | ‘ He was wanting to know if Philip had been up in Mr Hyde 's woods . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ There are many instances where UK investment and product costs have been up to twenty per cent below other European countries , but the investment has still been located on the continent because of unfair political pressures and highly discriminatory practices , ’ he added to gasps of pained surprise . |
| 28 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 29 | Wait until he knows what else you 've been up to ! ’ |
| 30 | Frank Sinatra , pacing the sound stage in his elevator shoes , explained they had all been up late the night before and that their performance might leave something to be desired . |