Example sentences of "have [be] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If we 'd been up on Water Gypsy 's superstructure you 'd have been in the canal by now . ’ |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | she 'd been up to Scotland |
| 8 | Oh she 'd been up to Pearks |
| 9 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 10 | They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time . |
| 11 | McLean is not the first bouncer to have been tried for Murder and certainly not the first bouncer to have been up on charges of serious violence . |
| 12 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 13 | The guys who had been up at Lockerbie , after Pan Am 103 , working alongside the British police , they did n't know how lucky they 'd been … |
| 14 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 15 | Vivien had been up at St Hugh 's , so I was looking forward to her being an excellent guide . |
| 16 | Vaguely she wondered if Kate and Stephen had been up to mischief . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , Fenella takes her duties terribly seriously and would have a minute by minute report of what Springsteen had been up to while I 'd been away . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And the day after Holly had been up to London to apply from the Consulate for a visa there had been the telephone call at Letterworth Engineering . |
| 20 | Benny heard from Patsy that the Healys had been up to Dublin to look for a child to adopt but they had n't got one because Mr Healy had a weak chest . |
| 21 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 22 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 23 | ‘ He was wanting to know if Philip had been up in Mr Hyde 's woods . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 25 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 26 | You 've been up for weeks now , have n't you ? |
| 27 | Your not waiting till you 've been up to London . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I 've been up to church . |
| 30 | Oh you 've been up to Joe 's have you mum ? |