Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been up practically the whole night , and all that driving with the sun dancing on the baked roads had n't helped . |
| 2 | I 'd been up |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I mean I think been up |
| 5 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 6 | The King 's mail never seemed to catch up with him , and now I did n't want Charlie to find out what I had been up to until I had the chance to witness his reaction for myself . |
| 7 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 8 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
| 9 | Wait until I 've been up and seen your Grandma Coates . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 11 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
| 12 | I 've been up to my eyes in mannequins and haute couture . ’ |
| 13 | Then he admitted as he shovelled manure at a tree-planting ceremoney in his Huntingdon constituency : ‘ It occurs to me I 've been up to my neck in this stuff for the last month . ’ |
| 14 | Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been up to my ears , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Sometimes when I 've been up early at home walking in the woods and come upon a roe deer close to , motionless , its alarm and scenting has reminded me of her . |
| 17 | I 've been up all night working on these . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’ |
| 19 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
| 20 | Well mainly cos of me mum of an evening , cos she 's not been too good , so I 've been up and down . |
| 21 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 22 | I 've been up here tw twenty-three years and I did n't go out till I came here so I should say I was about twenty-two years ago I started back to work . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 25 | After I 've been up and about for |
| 26 | I I mean I mean I 've been up since half past three this morning , |
| 27 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 28 | Well I 've been up practically the best part of the night with her , just crying . |
| 29 | What that basically means , wherever that happens anywhere else in the country , you go to South Wales , you go to West Lothian , places like that I 've been up to West Lothian , all services are reduced when your main industry 's removed from an area . |
| 30 | I 've been up |