Example sentences of "been [verb] up [prep] the night " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 2 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 3 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 4 | During his last year in Fontanellato Don Cattahianchi had been woken up in the night on a number of occasions and beaten by the secret police . |
| 5 | The boarding plank had been taken up for the night . |