Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been stitched up by the Richardson gang ’ |
| 7 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
| 8 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |
| 10 | What I really love about these guitars — the 12-strings especially — is that they 've been set up with the lowest , most buzz-free actions imaginable . |
| 11 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 12 | The chemical industry 's efforts to secure insurance have been stepped up following the publication of a number of European directives suggesting a move towards much wider compulsory compensation for environmental damage . |
| 13 | ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance . |
| 14 | ( The PPP figures have been scaled up from the World Bank 's 1990 figures . ) |
| 15 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 16 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 17 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |
| 18 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 19 | In addition to events previously announced , there will be a Virago Birthday Breakfast to get the conference off to a positive start on the Monday , and four more workshops have been firmed up for the afternoon : ‘ Goodbye to Gutenberg ’ ( speakers Tony Feldman , Japp Buchli of Scheltma Hokema Vermuelen , Paul Ayscough of Columbia TriStar and Michael Kemp of Franklin Electronic ) ; ‘ Targeting the Book Market ’ — The Role of Research ’ ( Peter Mouncey of the AA , Sue Morris of W H Smith and Leslie Henry of BML ) ; ‘ Financial Management for Booksellers ’ ( Ian Newman , Waterstones ) ; and ‘ Take Four Walls — Shop Design on a Budget ’ ( Barry Steadham , Insight Design ) . |
| 20 | Historical documentation in this field becomes more scarce as the emphasis moves towards other aspects of social organization , despite the highly influential work of the French historian Braudel , whose books ( e.g. 1981 ) include lengthy accounts of patterns of consumption in food , textiles and housing , which have been followed up by the Annales school of historians ( see also Elias 1978 ; Sombart 1967 for alternative traditions ) . |
| 21 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 22 | Local tradition maintains that over the centuries , pieces of ancient armour and weapons have been ploughed up in the area In 1796 , a carved stone was unearthed near the burial mound but its whereabouts is now unknown . |
| 23 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 24 | She arrived in a big BMW of the type the East End villains drive now that all the old Jags have been bought up by the TV stations to make cops and robbers series . |
| 25 | The implementation of an appraisal scheme , and pilot studies to develop the details , have been held up by the drawn out teachers ' dispute . |
| 26 | What is really amazing however is the routes which have been dreamed up for the Super-Sprinters , and which have taken off with growth factors unbelieved when first disclosed . |
| 27 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 28 | In the light of that enthusiasm is the present Financial Secretary able to tell us how many employee share ownership trusts have been set up under the statutory provisions ? |
| 29 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 30 | Moscow also has trade missions in most Latin American capitals , and where trade has become at all significant joint inter-governmental commissions have been set up with the aim of promoting fulfilment of the trading agreements . |