Example sentences of "been [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw yesterday' in Markstadt a shelter which has beds for 100 of these children ; 42 children had died in the last 24 hours , but these places had been filled up . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 3 | Because I recko , I reckon they must of been paid for that because Maury has n't been phoning up and saying oh you have n't paid it ! |
| 4 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 5 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 6 | The stile is stopped up and , and res erm children particularly are clambering over the bridge in order to use the footpath , which actually does end at the stile , which has been stopped up , erm through the nature reserve . |
| 7 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 8 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 10 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 11 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 12 | The work went on until the last marcher had been patched up . |
| 13 | Now you 've been patched up , your hull 's been scraped , a lick of paint and you 're ready to get back into the great sea of life . |
| 14 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 15 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 16 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 17 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 18 | Foreign investors have been queueing up to buy them . |
| 19 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 20 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 21 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 22 | The management has , very decently , been slapping up borrowed works of art . |
| 23 | Both options C1 and C2 , retain a line from March to Spalding , in East Anglia This line was closed last year and the track has been ripped up . |
| 24 | Bed after regular bed shows a dark , laminated lower portion which I identify as an algal mat type deposit that has been ripped up and incorporated , in a graded fashion , in " cleaner " , paler sediment from offshore . |
| 25 | Now the track has been ripped up , the station master 's house and station have been converted into homes , and the architecturally-unique waiting-room ( or workman 's shelter ) seems to have fallen down . |
| 26 | With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas . |
| 27 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 28 | Australian Mutual Provident has been building up its stake in Pearl for the last two years . |
| 29 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 30 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |