Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 2 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 3 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 4 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 5 | The Daughters of the American Revolution had been racking up a heavy rep in the past few months . |