Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 2 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 3 | Yet we also have the example of Robert Ferguson , the Whig plotter who had been mixed up in the Rye House intrigues and Monmouth 's Rebellion . |
| 4 | In the course of completing the resurvey of the Coventry district , a comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area by way of experiment . |
| 5 | A comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area , by way of experiment , so that thematic maps can be produced when required , as well as a more advanced three-dimensional depiction of geological structure . |
| 6 | ‘ If this issue had been built up by the NFU and sufficient Tory MPs had rebelled we could have reversed the cuts but there seemed to be little fight from Edinburgh . |
| 7 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 8 | Television coverage had been scooped up by the BBC , who had realised the dramatic possibilities of the occasion . |
| 9 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |
| 10 | By the middle of the eighteenth century alluvial workings had been opened up in the Ural mountains . |
| 11 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been stitched up by the Richardson gang ’ |
| 13 | On March 1 King Bhumibol Adulyadej formally approved a new interim Constitution which had been drawn up by the NPKC . |
| 14 | Jones , once a Royal Yacht engineer and a lifeboat mechanic on Anglesey , has been tied up at the Arden Arms for two years . |
| 15 | The sensory room has been set up at the Ormerod school in Oxford alongside the normal toy room . |
| 16 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |
| 17 | On 11 September the German Standortkommandantur , which had been set up in the Piazza Garibaldi to administer the city of Parma , issued a series of orders , one of which stated that it was forbidden for civilians to have guns and that looting would be punishable by death . |
| 18 | in UK The first nationally-organized car pooling scheme has been set up in the UK . |
| 19 | Temporary facilities have been set up in the Union Street car park because the depot was reduced to a heap of rubble in Sunday evening 's IRA bomb . |
| 20 | GLEB had been set up by the GLC in 1983 to provide venture capital to start up enterprises and provide jobs in the London area . |
| 21 | A SPECIAL hit-squad has been set up by the IRA to target top loyalists , according to the RUC . |
| 22 | While his gimlet eye has been fixed upon the Institute 's accounts , it has not been free to rove over his own financial affairs and he has , accordingly , been marked up by the Woolwich Building Society with distressing ease . |
| 23 | Certainly Joanne Menzies appeared not to recognize him , although he 'd rather regretted choosing the character of Detective-Sergeant McWhirter of Scotland Yard when she revealed that she 'd been brought up near the Kyles of Bute . |
| 24 | She wondered how he would be now if he 'd been brought up in the Down Manor Orphanage . |
| 25 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |
| 26 | Sir Christopher designed most of the buildings himself , but left the design of ‘ The Castle , to the terrifically fashionable architect John Carr of York , who had been taken up by the Yorkshire gentry after his triumph with the design for the grandstand on the racecourse at Knavesmire . |
| 27 | When the British papers printed that Scotland Yard believed the silver to have been dug up at the Barbariga army base and smuggled by a Yugoslav diplomat , the Federal commission said , ‘ The press is to be criticised for all such insinuations ’ and ‘ the control of the diplomatic bag is so rigorous in Jugoslavia that it is absolutely impossible for the treasure or anything else to be smuggled out that way ’ . |
| 28 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |