Example sentences of "[be] up [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 've been up there for two days .
2 you 'll be up there for seven in the morning
3 ‘ It is astounding that he was up there for all that time in such a busy area without anyone noticing , ’ said Det Insp Martyn Evans .
4 I was up there for six weeks , I passed the course and was posted back to Brigade H Q to a wider posting to a regiment .
5 Muhammad went up the mountain — ; He was up there for more than an hour —
6 Steve was up there for half an hour while I shivered with cold and neurosis .
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