Example sentences of "[vb past] been up since " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 4 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 5 | 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 . |