Example sentences of "have been [verb] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jem has been beaten up in the street by three men . |
| 2 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 3 | So far its class-based line has been almost exclusively animated by a critique of race awareness training — a practical strategy which has been thrown up in the grating between the first two tendencies . |
| 4 | The commander of UN troops in Bosnia , General Philippe Morillon , has been holed up in the town for the past week vowing not to leave until the safety of the inhabitants is assured . |
| 5 | A trust has been set up in the wake of the tragic Pakistan International Airlines crash in the Himalaya in memory of outdoor pursuits lecturer Brian Rollins ( aged 40 ) , who was on board . |
| 6 | in UK The first nationally-organized car pooling scheme has been set up in the UK . |
| 7 | A new town has been set up in the heart of the Arara Indian reserve in Brazil 's Para state . |
| 8 | An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal . |
| 9 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 10 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 11 | She wondered how he would be now if he 'd been brought up in the Down Manor Orphanage . |
| 12 | • The object may have been choked up in the child 's mouth . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded , Andrewes as Bishop of Ely would have been blown up in the House of Lords together with the King . |
| 15 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 16 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 17 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 18 | The problem is that although the typeface may have the same name — indeed it may even come from the same original — it may not have been coded up in the same way . |
| 19 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 20 | The small smelter and mint was said to have been set up in the heart of the Rusland woods down towards the Leven Estuary , and coins were turned out in large numbers . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |
| 22 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 23 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 24 | The Duke turned abruptly back , intending to inform his lordship that he did not permit duelling among his officers , but Rossendale and Jane had been swallowed up in the crowd . |
| 25 | Alexander told her about the Venus of Arles , who had been dug up in the Roman circus there , classically graceful with both her arms , holding up the golden or marble apple . |
| 26 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 27 | Standing there , surveying the hall , so pleasant now ( though she knew that really she ought to get carpet foam and do over the carpet which after all had been folded up in the dust of the skip ) , she saw that Philip had mended the little cupboard under the stairs that the policeman had kicked in . |
| 28 | By the middle of the eighteenth century alluvial workings had been opened up in the Ural mountains . |
| 29 | They had n't arrived yet , because they had been held up in the traffic , but they would be along in time for an early lunch . |
| 30 | The measure had been approved by the lower chamber on Dec. 1 , but had been held up in the upper house where the LDP lacked an overall majority . |