Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] up [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of them , the leather sole had been built up fairly high and yet by the sheer elegance of the design the modification scarcely showed . |
| 2 | But this was a boat was saw s , over the up the side of the mainland , in fact , which had been er whether it had been tied up too tight in fact I wo , now , now for leeway and the thing had just sunk . |
| 3 | Sufferers are never too young nor too old , too early in the disease nor too late to get into recovery when they truly want it : the " Big Books " of other Fellowships record many stories of recovery in sufferers who had been given up as hopeless . |
| 4 | Once he had told her , in a mood of taunting cruelty that sometimes overtook him , that he had been saving up quietly all these years , enough money " to be rid of you for ever " . |
| 5 | When Ven drew up outside her hotel , Fabia went on to realise just how kind he had been to give up so much of his time . |
| 6 | I had been shown up as small and vulnerable . |