Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [vb pp] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 2 | It was feared the collection , offered for sale by Lord Brownlow , would go abroad , but it has been snapped up for £220,000 by Lincolnshire County Council , backed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum . |
| 3 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 4 | It 's been put up for sale by the Gloucester Health Authority , which would like to see it renovated . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |
| 6 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |