Example sentences of "[been] [verb] up in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 2 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 3 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 4 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 5 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |
| 6 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 7 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 8 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 9 | Yet we also have the example of Robert Ferguson , the Whig plotter who had been mixed up in the Rye House intrigues and Monmouth 's Rebellion . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |
| 11 | By the middle of the eighteenth century alluvial workings had been opened up in the Ural mountains . |
| 12 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 13 | The Duke turned abruptly back , intending to inform his lordship that he did not permit duelling among his officers , but Rossendale and Jane had been swallowed up in the crowd . |
| 14 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |
| 15 | The small smelter and mint was said to have been set up in the heart of the Rusland woods down towards the Leven Estuary , and coins were turned out in large numbers . |
| 16 | A new town has been set up in the heart of the Arara Indian reserve in Brazil 's Para state . |
| 17 | A Christmas tree had been set up in the corridor with fairy lights that winked on and off . |
| 18 | As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University . |
| 19 | A trust has been set up in the wake of the tragic Pakistan International Airlines crash in the Himalaya in memory of outdoor pursuits lecturer Brian Rollins ( aged 40 ) , who was on board . |
| 20 | On 11 September the German Standortkommandantur , which had been set up in the Piazza Garibaldi to administer the city of Parma , issued a series of orders , one of which stated that it was forbidden for civilians to have guns and that looting would be punishable by death . |
| 21 | in UK The first nationally-organized car pooling scheme has been set up in the UK . |
| 22 | Temporary facilities have been set up in the Union Street car park because the depot was reduced to a heap of rubble in Sunday evening 's IRA bomb . |
| 23 | Through the development of disused buildings on the refinery site and a £500,000 loan fund , 170 small businesses have been set up in the area , employing 1,200 local people . |
| 24 | Responding to other free-trade zones that have been set up in the region , Bolivia , Colombia , Venezuela , Peru and Ecuador will progressively reduce tariffs and other regional trade barriers . |
| 25 | The first ‘ tent cities ’ for a few thousand people have been set up in the plain near Zakho . |
| 26 | During his last year in Fontanellato Don Cattahianchi had been woken up in the night on a number of occasions and beaten by the secret police . |
| 27 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 28 | Cos quite a g quite a few young people have actually been brought up in the flats , have n't they ? |
| 29 | At the other extreme was a Filipino who had been brought up in the slums of Manila , his father an alcoholic drug dealer and his mother a whore . |
| 30 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |