Example sentences of "been [verb] up [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's CSO figures showed that the July total had been revised up to £2,487million from the previous £2,225 million figure . |
| 4 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 5 | The court heard that McGregor had been caught up in attempts by a neighbour to end a relationship between his 20-year-old daughter and an older man . |
| 6 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 7 | They 'd been caught up in gunfire at home in Beirut , which left them paralysed . |
| 8 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 9 | Left home earlyish for his visit by rail to London to see his publishers ; been picked up by taxi at about 7.20 a.m. , almost certainly to catch the 07.59 , arriving Paddington at 09.03 ; obviously with only some fairly quick business to transact since he 'd appeared confident of meeting his commitments with the tourists at lunchtime at The Randolph , and then again during the afternoon ; likely as not , then , he would originally have intended to catch the 11.30 from Paddington , arriving Oxford at 12.30 . |
| 10 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 11 | The broken windows had been boarded up with pieces of wood from the attic . |
| 12 | The area around the crack should be thoroughly cleaned and the two-part resin filler applied after it has been mixed up in accordance with the instructions . |
| 13 | Mouse had been curled up with Wolf on one of the mattresses , sleepily combing the tangled hair of Wolf 's great mane with his fingers , when the sandy-haired woman slammed through the door and kicked it shut behind her . |
| 14 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |
| 15 | They were on a promontory which had been built up with blocks of granite . |
| 16 | And this is not the only place in The Exile where Pound shows himself restive inside the image of himself that had been built up among initiates by his propaganda of fifteen years before , when he had taken over ‘ imagism ’ and championed Ford Madox Ford 's ideas about a diction for poetry that should be ‘ plain ’ and ‘ direct ’ . |
| 17 | Going into the prisons , they meet and talk with the men responsible for these violent acts , demystifying the fantasies which have often been built up in isolation from women , and sharing feminine responses to feelings with the men . |
| 18 | The shortfall has been made up by grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the National Art Collections Fund and the British Museum Society . |
| 19 | The actual payment or receipt of the option premium is effected when the position is closed , at the rate prevailing at that time , with the difference between that and the option price at the outset having been made up by payments of variation margin . |
| 20 | This three-pronged approach has proved to be a successful formula , and many new markets have been opened up for companies as a result of participation on a mission . |
| 21 | He was a man who had started out in his career simple and full of hope , but his life had been so marked by violent and terrible happenings that his character was now seamed and rocky like a mountain face which had been opened up by movements of the earth , then partly sealed by lava flows . |
| 22 | For most of the time he shifted about from one foot to the other , more like a naughty schoolboy who has been hauled up in front of the head master than a genie rubbed out of a bottle . |
| 23 | With my letter , I sent you two copies of an Agreement that had been drawn up for signature on behalf of AT&T , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements . |
| 24 | Proposals for acquisition of land from Abbey Church have been drawn up including investigation of the costs of altering the pavement and boundary wall . |
| 25 | Conversely , Green MEPs are concerned that the Commission 's paper has been drawn up without reference to the effects that patenting will have on farmers , breeders , consumers and the developing world . |
| 26 | The plans have been drawn up in response to concern over the nuclear industry 's long-term financial future , particularly after the end of the non-fossil fuels levy in 1998 . |
| 27 | A Service Agreement for the purchase of an individual place in residential or nursing home care has been drawn up in discussion with a ‘ reference group ’ of voluntary and private sector providers . |
| 28 | The plan has been drawn up in consultation with the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation which maintains that there is no danger to nearby sites , but is fiercely opposed by other archaeologists who say this area has not yet been explored . |
| 29 | Radioactive seaweed has been washed up on beaches near Sellafield 's outlet pipeline . |
| 30 | Hundreds of dead and dying dolphins have been washed up on beaches in Greece and Turkey . |