Example sentences of "had been up [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 2 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 3 | It looked as if both men had been up all night . |
| 4 | He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night . |
| 5 | ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them . |
| 6 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 7 | Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one . |
| 8 | He had been up half the previous night upon a quite different case , and all this night upon this , which had only just become a case , and his , after all . |