Example sentences of "you [be] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Have you been up to Joe 's ?
2 You are only fifteen , and if your parents will not take responsibility for you , and you will not tell us what you are up at night , the only alternative is for you to go into care .
3 Yes you 're up on Sunday , yeah
4 So then you 're up to date , but three in the afternoon you 've got the C B S evening news , 'cos they 're also three hours earlier .
5 ‘ Well , give me a ring when you 're up in London , or rather before — when you 're better , that is .
6 ‘ If you 're up in London tomorrow — ’ Guy broke into the conversation calmly , having opted for a wedge of Virginia 's baked raisin cheesecake in preference to fresh strawberries , or rich chocolate gâteau , ‘ I 've got two tickets for the American Ballet Theatre . ’
7 If the word , son , there , you the decide , sing child if you feel more comfortable with that , you 're up in arms .
8 J.B. Well again you see you 're up against tradition all the time , are n't you ?
9 ‘ When you 've got nothing except just your bare life and you 're up against destiny or death .
10 If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points
11 ‘ I 'd like to know what you were up to while I was away , ’ said Constance .
12 This problem is only because you 're doing them retrospectively , if you were up to date you would n't have a problem at all would you ?
13 What was that beak we used to mob up — air-nair , you were up to Wettie Wilkinson , for Constrair .
14 It 's terribly suspicious , Reinhard , you being up in Denmark when the old fox flies away .
15 When you was up at Teddys thought a bit little and it was , it was achanical .
16 Thank god when you was up in Liverpool up there somewhere , and she was working in that factory , she was at it every day , I was
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