Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [vb pp] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | • The object may have been choked up in the child 's mouth . |
| 2 | That said , the Vet scene has charged his zest for running which otherwise might have been swallowed up in the 40-something concentration on family , career and mortgage . |
| 3 | If the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded , Andrewes as Bishop of Ely would have been blown up in the House of Lords together with the King . |
| 4 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 5 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 6 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 7 | The problem is that although the typeface may have the same name — indeed it may even come from the same original — it may not have been coded up in the same way . |
| 8 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |