Example sentences of "been up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well , it will surprise you to know that Mrs Glen thought I , me , myself , personally had been up to no good . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Somerset police had indeed called , and the BA had indeed been up to no good . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
| 11 | And has he been up to the top of the |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Have you been up to the house yet ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too . |
| 17 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 20 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 21 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Been up at the School today , ’ replied the visitor . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's been up at the School ! |
| 25 | ‘ Look dear , Joe 's just been up with a tray of sumptuous goodies . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Maya said , ‘ You ever been up in a helicopter ? ’ |
| 28 | Well we 've got up this morning we 've , and I said to Trevor have the kids been up in the night ? |
| 29 | ‘ Had he been up in the attic ? |
| 30 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |