Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When pouring , it had been impossible to line up the bottles with the glasses , no matter how close she held the neck of a bottle to the rim of a glass . |
| 2 | Cutting large areas of privet was accomplished , by ut the larger cutting sweeps of the 523H would have been welcome to speed up the task . |
| 3 | Landowner John Davies has been happy to keep up the tradition . |
| 4 | Most social historians have tended to stick with Raymond Williams 's argument and have been reluctant to give up the notion that what was most lively and energetic in all that variety came from the working class . |
| 5 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 6 | Although badly injured with four bullets inside him , PC Kelly had been able to call up the SOS code number , ‘ ten nine , ten nine ’ . |
| 7 | This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces . |
| 8 | Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its Inmos Ltd T9000 Transputer-based SN9000 series parallel computers . |
| 9 | Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its T9000-based SN9000 series parallel computers . |
| 10 | But companies have been slow to take up the money . |
| 11 | But telephone companies building long-distance , high-capacity transmission lines have not been slow to take up the challenge . |