Example sentences of "been [verb] up for [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’
2	Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time .
3	Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone .
4	Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing .
5	A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police .
6	Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose .
7	A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation .
8	‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people .
9	The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War .
10	Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all .
11	Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox .

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