Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 2 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 3 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 4 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 5 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 6 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 7 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 8 | Teachers have been clearing up the mess and the headmaster says some lessons will be held in a nearby school later this week . |