Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [adv prt] since [num] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been up since six . ’ |
2 | 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 . |
3 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
4 | She 's been up since six and he is up |
5 | ‘ I daresay she 's been up since three , being horsey . ’ ) |
6 | 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 |
7 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
8 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |
9 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
10 | Although it 's been around since 1985 you could hardly describe it as one of the top-selling DOS word processors . |
11 | 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 ’ . |
12 | ‘ Some of us have been up since six-thirty and I like to read . |