Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
2 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 ’ . |
5 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
6 | Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all . |
7 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
8 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |