Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 2 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
| 3 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 4 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 5 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |
| 6 | In the letters Bush suggested compromise terms for the two issues which had been holding up an agreement on a conference , namely the question of UN representation and the nature of the conference itself . |
| 7 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 8 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 9 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 10 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 11 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 12 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 13 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 14 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 15 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 17 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 18 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 19 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 20 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 21 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 22 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |
| 23 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 24 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 25 | And from his Portakabin headquarters behind barbed wire round the back of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre complex , ‘ actually a great improvement on the one room we had inside until this month ! ’ , he 's been lining up a string of new sponsorship deals . |