Example sentences of "[been] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A porter had already been up to the suite with their luggage , she noted , as she observed that off the sitting-room — with French windows to a balcony between — were two other doors . |
2 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
3 | And has he been up to the top of the |
4 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
5 | Have you been up to the house yet ? ’ |
6 | I saw him — never mind how , I 'll tell you later , but the point is , he 's been up to the house and taken things . |
7 | I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’ |
8 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |
9 | ‘ Been up at the School today , ’ replied the visitor . |
10 | ‘ He 's been up at the School ! |
11 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |
12 | Well we 've got up this morning we 've , and I said to Trevor have the kids been up in the night ? |
13 | ‘ Had he been up in the attic ? |
14 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
15 | Another remarked that once one had seen the ostriches ( he meant the ospreys at Loch Garten ) , the Aviemore Centre , and been up in the chair lift to Cairn Gorm there ‘ was n't anything else to do ’ . |
16 | It looked as if she 'd been up in the loft for something , which I suppose was rather rash in her state of health . |
17 | 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 |
18 | Robert might have been up in the house . |