Example sentences of "have been up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 2 | My own memory is vivid : it was a bitterly cold morning , below - 14° , and the ground I trod , in which only days before I would have been up to my knees in mud , was as solid as rock . |
| 3 | Stephen Hawking makes frequent references to what God might have been up to when designing the cosmos . |
| 4 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 5 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 6 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 7 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 8 | ‘ That would have been up to her . ’ |
| 9 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time . |
| 12 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 13 | Robert might have been up in the house . |