Example sentences of "been [verb] up for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 3 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 4 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 5 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 6 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 7 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 8 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |