Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 2 | The car had been chased up the M1 as far as Newport Pagnall by two Bedfordshire police patrol cars . |
| 3 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 4 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 5 | The judge has been summing up the case against Harper and the jury will consider the case against him tomorrow . |
| 6 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 7 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 8 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 9 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |
| 10 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 11 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 12 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 13 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 14 | The company policy had been to speed up the line and the rate of production . |
| 15 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 16 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 17 | The Project 's approach has been to build up the confidence and self-awareness of different groups to a stage where contact and co-operation among them will be facilitated . |
| 18 | Teachers have been clearing up the mess and the headmaster says some lessons will be held in a nearby school later this week . |
| 19 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 20 | The aim of successive American administrations had been to build up the strength of the most vulnerable states in the area — those known until the Second World War as French Indo-China and later divided into the separate states of Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia . |
| 21 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 22 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 23 | Bull Worldwide Telco has been set up the ‘ better to co-ordinate Bull 's telco strategy and solutions , and to develop new group skills and expertise within the domain . ’ |
| 24 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 25 | This view shows the station still under construction and it will be seen that a temporary track has been laid up the ramp to Infirmary Road to enable materials to be offloaded . |
| 26 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |