Example sentences of "have been up [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then .
2 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
3 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
4 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
5 It looked as if she 'd been up in the loft for something , which I suppose was rather rash in her state of health .
6 This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day .
7 ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity .
8 Robert might have been up in the house .
9 The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze .
10 By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin .
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 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 .
13 Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help .
14 Well , it will surprise you to know that Mrs Glen thought I , me , myself , personally had been up to no good .
15 North Korea would probably still have to admit , as Iraq has done under UN sanctions and as South Africa did voluntarily , that it had been up to no good .
16 She could n't stand Clarissa who , in the past , had quite often perceived it as her duty to inform Scarlet that her daughter , in one way or another , had been up to no good .
17 Not content with blackguarding him in the columns of the local rag , him and his silly daughter 's bum , the one-time Chief Citizen of the Borough had been up to no good with a girl young enough to be Grace 's sister , and in the Grand Hotel , and at a Conservative Party conference of all places .
18 I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy .
19 ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics .
20 ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly .
21 No , I 've been up for an hour !
22 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 .
23 I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’
24 ‘ And if you do n't get out of here I 'll tell him you 've been up in the woods with a dog .
25 you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office .
26 With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 ‘ He 's been up at the School !
30 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 .
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