Example sentences of "[verb] been up since " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no matter , and who am I to complain , certainly not to Jan , the lady of the maggots , who has been up since four and already whisked through acres of office carpet , scads of bins and oceans of scummy cups . |
| 2 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 3 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 4 | Having been up since six and groomed Bones until the sweat ran ( his , not Bones 's ) he felt as if the day were three-quarters through . |
| 5 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 6 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 7 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 8 | I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been up since six . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been up since half past seven . |
| 11 | I 've been up since quarter to five . |
| 12 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of us have been up since six-thirty and I like to read . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I daresay she 's been up since three , being horsey . ’ ) |
| 16 | Even though he 's been up since six at his job in the City and is absolutely starving , the Hooray must wait until 10.30pm and then ‘ gair-airt-dinner ’ or ‘ gair-fair-n-Indi ’ . |
| 17 | but Reggie , Reggie will come in and go straight to bed , he 's been up since about quarter to four |
| 18 | She 's been up since six and he is up |