Example sentences of "he have been [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 2 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 3 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 4 | He has been caught up in his club 's poor form , the former English champions having slipped into the bottom half of the Premier League . |
| 5 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 6 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
| 7 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 8 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 9 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 10 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 11 | There he 'd been picked up by his mother Ruth . |
| 12 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 13 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 14 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 15 | He could n't speak Arabic , as he 'd been brought up in Zanzibar . |
| 16 | I think he was an Aberdonian really the way he spoke anyway but he 'd been brought up in Blair Gowrie . |
| 17 | She wondered how he would be now if he 'd been brought up in the Down Manor Orphanage . |
| 18 | He had been blown up by a landmine in the '73 war and he was held together , he told us , with metal pins . |
| 19 | Later , relatives of another polio victim told the Derry Journal that he had been beaten up by a group of policemen when he went to buy cigarettes on the evening of Sunday 6 October . |
| 20 | He had a really nice family — he had a very good relationship with his wife — he was very bright , he enjoyed life , he read a lot , he had been teaching up until a month before hospitalization , and he had the will to live … |
| 21 | No , he had been set up by his fellow conspirators . |
| 22 | And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling . |
| 23 | And all the while he had been creeping up on them , unseen . |
| 24 | He had been taken up by and was much impressed and influenced by Emlyn Williams — working-class Welshman become writer/actor/director/Oxford University graduate — but Williams 's guidance was not always so effective . |
| 25 | His goal , which squared the friendly 1–1 , was all the more remarkable considering he had been laid up in bed with flu for most of last week and forced to miss Sunday 's game against Torino . |
| 26 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 27 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 28 | Of course , he had been brought up to it because his father , Edmund Fawcett , was a gamekeeper . |
| 29 | He had been brought up to call Mrs Naulls " Nanna " but had had more luck with her than with Dadda when he wanted to change this mode of address . |
| 30 | He had been brought up with a lot of fine furniture and had always been conscious of its value . |