Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 2 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 3 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 4 | The judge has been summing up the case against Harper and the jury will consider the case against him tomorrow . |
| 5 | After the computer has been started up a number of times — possibly 90 — the damage starts . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The latest entry , Quarterdeck with the long-awaited Desqview/X , however , has been stirring up the market with some high profile selling , backed by a positive reception from the industry . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Said Guy 's been playing up a bit lately has n't he ? |