Example sentences of "been [verb] up [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All pretence that the paper ever belonged to MacQuillan personally had been given up and the title transferred to a newly formed company within the MacQuillan empire . |
| 2 | In principle the integration of primary and secondary care should also be enhanced ( although this could have been speeded up if the government had integrated FHSAs with DHAs from the beginning ) . |
| 3 | The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame . |
| 4 | Over the past sixty years the buildings housing the scientific laboratories and teaching classrooms have been built up and the population of students and staff has grown until there are now nearly one thousand registered postgraduate students and over one thousand academic , research and support staff . |
| 5 | push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away |
| 6 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 7 | This has been changing , as more work is done on the Athenian Council ( Boule ) of 500 members , lists of whom have been turning up since the Americans began to excavate the agora in the 1930s . |
| 8 | Although the yolk sac will still be evident , there will not be a great deal of nutritious value left in it , as they will have been used up while the fry were in the pit developing . |
| 9 | Days Mill , in its diminished form , has now been swallowed up as the town of Nailsworth has expanded around it . |
| 10 | A local authority may not cause the child to be brought up in any religious persuasion other than the one in which he would have been brought up if the order had not been made ( s33(6) ( a ) ) . |
| 11 | What had occurred was precisely the sort of ‘ semi-hysterical outburst of militancy ’ which McCann had criticised , and far from exposing and isolating the Nationalists , an informal united front had been struck up and the politicians were being allowed to clamber onto the DHAC 's bandwagon . |
| 12 | Needless to say , thanks to an over-dependence on Hawkins 's remark , this has never been followed up and the harpsichord can no longer be identified . |
| 13 | Huge tents , open-fronted , had been put up and the Empress came in state with all her ladies , veiled to the eyes , and took her place on the throne . |
| 14 | The next day County issued a press release announcing that 48.9% of the shares had been taken up and the rest sold on the market . |
| 15 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 16 | The debris from today 's accdient has now been cleared up and the road re-opened . |
| 17 | More than 100,000 vacuum cleaners have been snapped up since the promotion was launched last month . |