Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 2 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 3 | ‘ I wish I 'd been brought up in one of these , ’ he said , ‘ rather than a tower block . |
| 4 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 5 | A reputation had been built up over several years for the use of computers in the fields of manpower planning , personnel statistics and other industrial relations applications . |
| 6 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 7 | The fleet had been built up from 1898 , matching the rise in passenger traffic , and was specially suited to the inter-urban nature of the line with its infrequent stops . |
| 8 | The company 's database of reactions contains information on over 500,000 compounds , and the expertise to operate many of these on a commercial scale had been built up from several decades of process development by Kodak , Eastman and Sterling . |
| 9 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 10 | Troubles had been piling up in recent months as the owners struggled to restore the house 's reputation . |
| 11 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 12 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |
| 13 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 14 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 15 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 16 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 17 | Repeated attempts to salvage her had been made up to 1840 , CH 1 . |
| 18 | It seems they had been beaten up in some way by other prisoners but we do not know who . ’ |
| 19 | In all the houses , a burned , ashy sediment had been piled up around some of the cooking-holes while they held containers , and this sediment was particularly rich in plant remains . |
| 20 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 21 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
| 22 | Furthermore , the reforms which had been implemented up to 1990 did not emerge from discussions between the communities concerned and the government but have been imposed from above . |
| 23 | The dyke at Gripness was laid flat by the sea but the smaller boats had been pulled up afore that . |
| 24 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 25 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 26 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 27 | But that is not to take anything away from Rogallo whose researches with NACA at the Langley Research Center into Parawings were well known , and had been picked up by several inventive minds in the kite world . |
| 28 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
| 29 | This story has a happy ending , because we learned later that the peregrine had been paired up with another Russian visitor of the same species . |
| 30 | By then he had already been ‘ discovered ’ and had been taken up by two well-known Cornishmen , Sir Charles Lemon of Truro and J.T. Treffrey of Fowey . |