Example sentences of "been [verb] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 2 | The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another . |
| 3 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
| 4 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 5 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 6 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 7 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 8 | As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis . |
| 9 | Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula . |
| 10 | The Ferrari has been built up from a shell at an unlikely location on the edge of the Forest of Dean . |
| 11 | It is an interesting thought that this whole design has been built up from a series of interlocking rectangles . |
| 12 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 13 | Again she was plied with whisky , but this time in hot water and sweetened with brown sugar ; she was then led to the sitting-room couch that had been made up as a bed for her . |
| 14 | They 're the ones that could have been made up from a kit , I always think , each part clearly demarcated ( bill , box-like head , neck ) — a rather angular goose . |
| 15 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 16 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |
| 17 | Constitutional fundamentals have been opened up with a vengeance . |
| 18 | A number of unused tickets , from not only the BCR have been turning up with a date in the year 1933 . |
| 19 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |
| 20 | The different LFA zones in the Auvergne have been drawn up on a Commune by Commune basis , each Commune being allocated completely to one zone or another with the exception of 11 Communes which are partly within one or other of the zones . |
| 21 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 22 | Although this commentary appears on RSPB headed paper , has been drawn up by a community of interests , including CPRW . |
| 23 | ‘ This year 's Autumn Statement has been drawn up against a background of continuing recession at home and renewed weakness abroad , ’ the Chancellor said . |
| 24 | Lisa Benner — police believe that her body has been washed up on a beach in Kent |
| 25 | It was like seeing a room that 's been tidied up after a death . |
| 26 | 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 … |
| 27 | The history of Venice has long been bound up with a pageant of ships . |
| 28 | But St Margaret of Antioch had been swallowed up by a dragon too , and she had climbed out again , fresh and free , to become the matron saint of women in childbirth . |
| 29 | I had hardly time to see that a car had been driven up to a shop window and was now rapidly reversing out of it when two young men wearing stocking-masks and bundled up in thick clothing , making them unidentifiable , came rushing into the street , each swinging a bag of loot . |
| 30 | A new high-profile lobbying organization has been set up with a view to rasing environmental issues in the European Commission . |