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Example sentences of "they have been [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.

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1	But today they contacted their colleagues in Oxford to say they 'd been held up by blizzards .
2	They 'd been caught up in gunfire at home in Beirut , which left them paralysed .
3	Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind .
4	Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down .
5	We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down .
6	He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’
7	Local residents in Wootton have become increasingly worried that high-intensity paint spraying will bring unpleasant smells and health hazards to the area , and they 've been backed up by local M P , John Patten as well as the Vale of White Horse District Council , whose planning committee have voted to stop Hartwells expanding their Wootton site into what they described as an industrial park .
8	‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater .
9	What I really love about these guitars — the 12-strings especially — is that they 've been set up with the lowest , most buzz-free actions imaginable .
10	And how many people can be sure of things about themselves when they 've been brought up to please other people ?
11	Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's
12	He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money .
13	‘ They had been covered up by layers of varnish and paint over the years and no-one knew what lay underneath . ’
14	It seems they had been beaten up in some way by other prisoners but we do not know who . ’
15	These firms had either splintered off from American companies — as in the case of Norman Broadbent — or they had been set up on their own from scratch , in a variety of forms such as MSL , EAL , Tyzack , Alexander Hughes , Goddard Kay Rogers , John Stork , Merton and Whitehead Mann , to name but a few .
16	They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron .
17	They had been set up in response to the current level of terrorist activity , but the need for them was assessed daily .
18	They had been trussed up with cord and partly wrapped in polythene bags and blankets .
19	They had been caught up with at Dornock , east of Annan , on the shore of the Solway , by a fast-riding English host under Sir Anthony de Lucy of Cockermouth , who had crossed the shallow firth at lowest tide by the temporarily dried-out Knockeross sands , from Bowness in Cumberland .
20	Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) .
21	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 .
22	‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money .
23	In the first place , they had been brought up in different environments .
24	Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage .
25	PULSARS that are members of binary systems in globular clusters are all rapidly rotating , and it is assumed that they have been spun up by accretion from binary companions .
26	‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me .
27	They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known .
28	For many reasons they often lack the superficial selfconfidence of men , especially if they have been tied up by domesticity for years .
29	Sometimes , like Gardencourt and possibly Poynton , they have been bought up by those who admire their antiquity , but have no connection with their land or history .
30	The problems with most people , if I can generalise , is that they have been brought up on the notion that a picture has to represent something and that to them means something recognizable , like a tree , or a landscape , or a windmill , or an oast house .