Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up [prep] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 2 | The present writer was co-ordinator of the UUUC ‘ Advice and Relief Centres ’ of which several hundred had been set up across the country . |
| 3 | A computermail database network has even been set up around the country for fans to debate the killer of Laura Palmer , the lovely blonde homecoming queen whose body mysteriously washes onto a river bank near a lumbermill in the fictional Pacific northwest town of Twin Peaks . |
| 4 | A chain of self-help groups has already been set up throughout the country by concerned parents . |
| 5 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |