Example sentences of "[pron] have been up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The King 's mail never seemed to catch up with him , and now I did n't want Charlie to find out what I had been up to until I had the chance to witness his reaction for myself . |
| 4 | I 've been up to my eyes in mannequins and haute couture . ’ |
| 5 | Then he admitted as he shovelled manure at a tree-planting ceremoney in his Huntingdon constituency : ‘ It occurs to me I 've been up to my neck in this stuff for the last month . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been up to my ears , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 8 | What that basically means , wherever that happens anywhere else in the country , you go to South Wales , you go to West Lothian , places like that I 've been up to West Lothian , all services are reduced when your main industry 's removed from an area . |
| 9 | I 've been up to church . |
| 10 | See she , she came around cos erm I 've been up to her , her friends place to and give him a bit of a telling off like and that and erm she came to John 's house and I said , why are calling ? |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 12 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 14 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 15 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
| 16 | I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been up since six . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been up since half past seven . |
| 19 | I 've been up since quarter to five . |
| 20 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 21 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
| 22 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
| 23 | No , no I 've never been down and er they 've always been full of water whenever I 've been up around there . |
| 24 | Honestly I have been Up To My Eyes in it recently . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had to decide before she saw her parents again if she should confess all that she 'd been up to . |
| 30 | 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 |