Example sentences of "i have been [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 2 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | It was quite away from the area I 'd been brought up in , but I got to like it and make friends , and I got more independent . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish I 'd been brought up in one of these , ’ he said , ‘ rather than a tower block . |
| 6 | Typical of the man , Ashe seemed more concerned about my welfare , hearing that I had been beaten up outside the stadium by a stick wielding Army officer , than his own . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 9 | I had been brought up to be a hero . |
| 10 | I had been brought up as a Congregationalist . |
| 11 | In 1966 I moved from the world of ‘ real polising ’ into areas of operational marginality which were further to confound the preference for the clearly delineated police world I had been brought up in . |
| 12 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 16 | Myler said : ‘ I 've been fed up of injuries and played only eight matches last season after a neck operation . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 19 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 20 | I 've been cooped up with my work , but I 'm sure my security staff would have notified me of any unexpected guests . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been picking up after them all night and all morning . |
| 22 | K. I 've been held up at Paddington , John . |
| 23 | But I suspected you were — well , feeling the way you did because of the way I 've been wrapped up in work , rather than because of any change in your condition . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ This is a battle for me but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 25 | Following last night 's 2–0 defeat by the USA he said : ‘ This is a battle for me , but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I 've been brought up in a good school these last few years , do n't you think ? |
| 27 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been stitched up by the Richardson gang ’ |
| 29 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 30 | 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 . |