Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 2 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been stitched up by the Richardson gang ’ |
| 8 | Now I do n't know if you 've been brought up on a diet of men who jump in and out of bed with whatever women take their fancy , but if you have then I suggest you go find one of them to satiate your appetite . |
| 9 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 've been brought up in a good school these last few years , do n't you think ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Your background , your pedigree , yes you you you 've been brought up in a , possibly your fa your your parents , they 've taught you the right way , they are thrilled pieces , or they were if if they ma , they may well have been de dead by that time , but they were thrilled to pieces when you as a pharisee became a teacher , and a ruler , a leader amongst your people ! |
| 14 | He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money . |
| 15 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |
| 16 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
| 17 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |
| 19 | What I really love about these guitars — the 12-strings especially — is that they 've been set up with the lowest , most buzz-free actions imaginable . |