Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 3 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 4 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 5 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 6 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 7 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 8 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 9 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 10 | So , I think possibly a little more thought in the actual , I think the actual shape of the girl there , the way she 's actually sitting is fine , but er it , it looks as if she 's been propped up with , you know , you better put this stool under your foot to hold that up and put this crutch under your arm to hold that up and |
| 11 | The home-help walked down the road towards Marie , wheeling her bike which had been propped up against the curb . |
| 12 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 13 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 14 | Racedown seems to have been given up without regret ; what was important was ‘ Coleridge 's society ’ . |
| 15 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 16 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 17 | Scientists at Boston University , using remote sensing techniques , have found that the desert pavement of Kuwait , southern Iraq and Saudi Arabia has been broken up over large areas by the massed movement of vehicles during the war . |
| 18 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
| 19 | The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another . |
| 20 | About the year 1737 , were found in St Margaret 's church-yard , Westminster , in a dry gravelly soil , at the depth of about 18 feet , or less , which had not been broken up for above fifty years before , three entire fir coffins ; the two largest clampt together with iron , as boxes sometimes are . |
| 21 | Networks of neighbours have been broken up by rehousing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Networks of neighbours have been broken up by rehousing . |
| 24 | In March 1965 a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery , Alabama , had been broken up by police . |
| 25 | A threatened school teachers ' strike was averted in November , but not before a meeting of school students in support of their teachers had been broken up by riot police . |
| 26 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 27 | A protest by badger lovers who chained themselves to railings at a Ministry of Agriculture culling centre has been broken up by police . |
| 28 | Twenty five enterprise zones have been designated up to May 1990 throughout the UK . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | GREEN Card actor Gerard Depardieu 's eldest son , Guillaume , 22 , has been roughed up in jail while awaiting trial on drug charges , it was claimed yesterday . |