Example sentences of "been up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 2 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
| 3 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |