Example sentences of "been [verb] up in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 2 | The steam boiler had been set up in a shed at the back of the offworlder 's house . |
| 3 | A FEARLESS new organisation has been set up in a bid to finally solve the world 's greatest murder mystery the assassination in Dallas of American president John F. Kennedy . |
| 4 | He had been brought up in a hut where six people slept in one bed . |
| 5 | But more : Margaret had been brought up in a household where true magic had been corrupted for profit and was therefore rightly feared as dangerous . |
| 6 | She was a shy , retiring girl who had been brought up in a convent school after being abandoned as a baby . |
| 7 | But it 's difficult to remember things like that when you 've been brought up in a village and you 're used to chatting to everyone you meet . |
| 8 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 9 | Rona was intensely practical in matters of charity , but then she 'd been brought up in a manse and was reading social studies . |
| 10 | Despite describing a happy childhood , she told her therapist about how she had been brought up in a family where she felt unappreciated and undervalued . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 13 | Although he had been brought up in a brothel , Katherine had ensured that neither of her children knew the true function of the house , and while they might suspect where some of here money came from — especially Patrick — they were in no position to argue about it . |
| 14 | I 'm most delighted to have it , having been brought up in a house in the Isle of Man that was very much a product of the earlier stage of the Arts and Crafts Movement ( it was designed by and built in 1893 ) . |
| 15 | Taken out of their non-violent society and ordered to kill , they seem to have been swept up in a sort of insanity which they call ‘ blood drunkenness ’ … |
| 16 | Patrick and Jane had been put up in a room in the Shelbourne Hotel which faced St Stephen 's Green . |
| 17 | Jittery swallows , which had been lined up in a row along the top of the gates , catapulted into the air . |
| 18 | It 's been knocked up in a shed in the back garden of John Ward 's home at Highan Serrers in Northamptonshire . |
| 19 | The implications about the relationship between the state , economy and a differentiated working class have only really been taken up in a way which derives from radical labour market theory . |
| 20 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |