Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] up [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been up all night . |
| 2 | He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket . |
| 3 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 4 | He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night . |
| 5 | 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 . |