Example sentences of "been [verb] up by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 2 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 3 | These had been broken up by the owls , and a collection of 1128 bones representing 27 individuals was compared with the bone numbers from intact pellets at the same nest site . |
| 4 | They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful . |
| 5 | That was rotten , now Mr Coombes feels there 's something rotten about how it 's been picked up by the planners . |
| 6 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 7 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 8 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 9 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 10 | It was just like Ireland to have a disastrous afternoon against Wales when we had been set up by the bookies as firm favourites . |
| 11 | Far from focusing more tightly on issues , many of the Ham & High 's key stories have been taken up by the nationals . |
| 12 | So many locations that would before have been snapped up by the professionals will be available to the amateur . |