Example sentences of "been [verb] up [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After their first encounter , the couple began seeing one another regularly , but the romance fizzled out after Mr Clinton returned to America , believing he had been called up to fight in the Vietnam war . |
| 2 | Before running the Validation program , ensure that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been set up to point to the configuration file for the LIFESPAN system being checked . |
| 3 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 4 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
| 5 | In addition to the Education and Training Working Party mentioned above , a working party ( Chairman : QC ) has been set up to look at the way ahead . |
| 6 | Now a Middlesbrough Council working party has been set up to look at the problem . |
| 7 | This group of NFL stalwarts were in Scotland as part of the World Partnership programme which has been set up to assist in the development of American football at amateur level in Europe . |
| 8 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's obviously been brought up to look on the doctor as the bogey man . ’ |
| 10 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 11 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |