Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 2 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 3 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 4 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 5 | She had been up for five hours . |