Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dumb bastard who dreamed that one up should have been strung up by his balls . ’ |
| 2 | No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights . |
| 3 | Instead , it lists a range of different losses which , the writs served on the two firms last March allege , should have been picked up during the course of the audits . |
| 4 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 5 | He should have been put up against a wall and shot , if you ask me , for dereliction of duty . |
| 6 | The Crown alleged that this was done at the instigation of the appellant with knowledge that the money should have been delivered up to the official receiver or the trustee in bankruptcy . |
| 7 | So what we know is that this must have been blocked up before this doorway was inserted , okay ? |
| 8 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 9 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 10 | Therefore either the customers must continually be changing identity ( so it is sensible for them to engage in some search ) and some expectation must have been built up about potential high benefits to search , or else search costs must be truly trivial , in order for the potential incumbent to stand a chance of usurping the established firm . |
| 11 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 12 | They must have been washed up on this ancient beach after being torn from their moorings , perhaps by a storm . |
| 13 | On the last day of the 1988 American presidential election Dukakis went on a whirlwind tour that must have been dreamed up by a desperate team . |
| 14 | The creation of this literature in Latin involved men whose native language was either certainly or probably not Latin : Livius Andronicus ' first language was Greek ; Ennius had Oscan ; Naevius , being a Campanian , probably also spoke Oscan as a child ; Plautus must have been brought up on Umbrian , and Terence apparently started with Punic . |
| 15 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 16 | ‘ I thought it might have been cleared up by now … |
| 17 | On Dec. 31 , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi was reported to have said that the Boeing might have been blown up by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) in retaliation for Libya 's disclosures to the United Kingdom government of its former IRA links . |
| 18 | That said , the Vet scene has charged his zest for running which otherwise might have been swallowed up in the 40-something concentration on family , career and mortgage . |
| 19 | One in which , on a single day , he could have been rounded up at bayonet-point or celebrated a cigarette . |
| 20 | Perhaps it could have been rounded up to seven hundred — still not quite accurate , but at least more accurate ? |
| 21 | They 're the ones that could have been made up from a kit , I always think , each part clearly demarcated ( bill , box-like head , neck ) — a rather angular goose . |
| 22 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |
| 23 | If , however , there was any way in which the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could have been set up by the blind forces of nature , strange and wonderful might have been the consequences . |
| 24 | These sporting contests between the house and the village ended with the arrival of a character who could have been dreamt up by central casting . |
| 25 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 26 | Historians usually refer to him as a Monmouthshire man ; his family connections and his early employment as a schoolteacher at Talgarth suggest that he could have been brought up in Breconshire , where , in 1737 , he was converted by Howel Harris [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | The fields near the margins of the swamp area were probably kept drained by the building of a network of canals : those towards the centre may have been built up above flood level with muck transferred from the canal bottoms . |
| 28 | • The object may have been choked up in the child 's mouth . |
| 29 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 30 | By analogy with " turbidites " he has coined the term " tempestites " for graded beds of shallow water sediment that may have been churned up by storms and allowed to settle again . |