Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came back to the world of RAM and ROM , my subconscious had apparently been connecting up some loose neurons , and everything fell into place . |
| 2 | They had already been hauled up eight times , the first during the summer of 1981 , and had been fined a total of £23,200 . |
| 3 | The Old Stager was on to a theme which he had clearly been bottling up all season . |
| 4 | The raising of a mentally handicapped child is a long and hard road , but then many would say so is bringing up any child . |
| 5 | I believe I have unconsciously been picking up modern reformed attitudes to nature from television wildlife programmes . |
| 6 | Defying the need to slump her head dejectedly on to her arms , to howl long and hard that every minute of this evening had been utter hell and that all she wanted now was to curl up safe and warm in her own bed . |