Example sentences of "been [verb] up [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 2 | The picture has been built up from an analysis of 715 applications to join the group 's management buy-in programme . |
| 3 | PLANS have been drawn up for an education resource centre at the Greenfield Valley Heritage Park near Holywell . |
| 4 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
| 5 | Since the article was published , a number of schemes have been set up in an attempt to improve the quality of child minding . |
| 6 | Of his voice , it was said that he could make himself heard from the harbour mouth to his Aunt Bridget 's kitchen in a full-blown gale ; but for all his thunder and lightning , his thigh-slapping guffaws and crude sense of humour , there was in Harry a man who needed the love of a woman , a man who , having been brought up by an uncle with strictly puritan views , longed for the approval and admiration of his elders . |
| 7 | He has never had any parents , he 's been brought up by an aunt . |
| 8 | Where children do not carry these assumptions inside them , it is because they have been brought up in an enclave that is struggling against the weight of secular pressure . |
| 9 | You 've been brought up in a television age and you 've been particularly been brought up in an age of card cartoons and soap operas and in all of those you would er expect to see good being oppressed that 's part of the plot in every cartoon there is a plot in every soap opera , that the good the good people actually end up in difficult situations and the way that results in the cartoons and in the soap operas is usually find revenge or punishment . |
| 10 | The reason for this , if only in part , was because Clift had been brought up in an era where homosexuality was considered a form of mental illness . |
| 11 | No , nor had I , but anyone who has ever lost young fish when they have been mashed up by an impeller , or lost the impeller itself when it has become fouled by a hard foreign body , will appreciate the advantages . |
| 12 | Former Tory Cabinet Minister , leading constitutional expert and friend of the Royal family Lord St John of Fawsley said last night the announcement ‘ must mean a change in the role of the Monarchy because they have for this century , and indeed the whole of the last one , been held up as an example of model family rectitude . |