Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 2 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 4 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 5 | I 've been cooped up with my work , but I 'm sure my security staff would have notified me of any unexpected guests . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been cooped up . |
| 7 | I 've been fitted up . ’ |
| 8 | Now you 've been patched up , your hull 's been scraped , a lick of paint and you 're ready to get back into the great sea of life . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you know who we 've been stood up by ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 11 | You 'll have to let them know you 've been called up . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 13 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been picking up after them all night and all morning . |
| 16 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 17 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 18 | I 've been mucked up , mucked it up completely now . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 20 | Myler said : ‘ I 've been fed up of injuries and played only eight matches last season after a neck operation . |
| 21 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 22 | ‘ But since you 've been grown up ? ’ |
| 23 | Er , I 'm er the last er f five days or so , I 've been getting up less . |
| 24 | I 've been getting up three times . |
| 25 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 26 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Why the hell do you think I 've been holed up here since yesterday ? |
| 28 | Local residents in Wootton have become increasingly worried that high-intensity paint spraying will bring unpleasant smells and health hazards to the area , and they 've been backed up by local M P , John Patten as well as the Vale of White Horse District Council , whose planning committee have voted to stop Hartwells expanding their Wootton site into what they described as an industrial park . |
| 29 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 30 | But I suspected you were — well , feeling the way you did because of the way I 've been wrapped up in work , rather than because of any change in your condition . ’ |