Example sentences of "we have [be] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 'd been up on Water Gypsy 's superstructure you 'd have been in the canal by now . ’ |
| 2 | Well he worked there and when I was we 'd left er Road , we 'd been up to up up to Terrace . |
| 3 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 4 | So we moved round every three or at the most four years , and er we we 've been up in Scotland and er Yorkshire , Lancashire , and down East Anglia . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was that , or frustration , or , more probable still , a queer kind of prudery — he would rather his mother thought him a brute than realize what we had been up to — that made him hit me . |
| 6 | As manager Andy Roxburgh says : ‘ We have been up to our elbows in accomplished defenders . |