Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 2 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
| 3 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 4 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 5 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 6 | He has now undergone a total of 10 operations , of which five have been to straighten up the three remaining toes on his left foot . |