Example sentences of "had been [verb] up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John told her that Mick , who had finished his examinations for Higher School Certificate , had been called up for the Royal Air Force . |
| 2 | Controls comprised 21 patients with ileal pouches constructed during the same period who had been followed up for a mean duration of 43 months ( range 15–119 months ) and who had had endoscopies that showed no evidence of active inflammation . |
| 3 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 4 | The boarding plank had been taken up for the night . |
| 5 | This was a house where four IRA men , surrounded by the police , had been holed up for a number of days . |
| 6 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter . |
| 7 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) . |
| 8 | There the rooms were filled with ancient furniture , preserved under white sheets , as if the house had been closed up for the summer only , while its occupant was absent . |
| 9 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |
| 10 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |