Example sentences of "[been] up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ D' you mind tellin' me what you 've been up to all day ? ’ demanded Dolly . |
| 2 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 3 | ‘ What 's 'e been up to this time ? ’ asked the put-upon wife . |
| 4 | Is er has what 's his name , the angry man been up to any antics lately ? |
| 5 | it 's probably , it , it may of been up to three years |
| 6 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 7 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 8 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 9 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 12 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 13 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |