Example sentences of "'ve been [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been stitched up by the Richardson gang ’ |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |