Example sentences of "been up [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He had been up seventeen hours .
2 Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games .
3 Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion .
4 But I 've been up all night .
5 I 've been up all night , thinking .
6 He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary .
7 It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline .
8 He 'd been up all night .
9 ‘ Have you been up all night ? ’
10 It looked as if both men had been up all night .
11 He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket .
12 Carrie said , ‘ You been up all night ? ’
13 I 've been up all night working on these . ’
14 He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night .
15 and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter .
16 ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’
17 Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes .
18 But I have been up all night comma , too tired , but I was really homesick .
19 ‘ You 've already been up all night .
20 ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them .
21 Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper .
22 I 've been up all night .
23 He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post .
24 Every morning since she 'd been here , apart from today , she 'd been up bright and early to see Kirsty off to school .
25 The police have been up several times , you know that attache case I said the dustman found that time ?
26 You 've never been up this late I do n't think .
27 The mast had been up three months and Kaptan still had one week of his vacation left when Osvaldo made his move .
28 Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one .
29 He had been up half the previous night upon a quite different case , and all this night upon this , which had only just become a case , and his , after all .
30 There she blows , it 's your mama hello , yeah we 've been up half er , since half past , about eight o'clock yeah , we 'll be round at nine o'clock , okay , bye .
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