Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the Boat Race has been livened up this year with the publication of True Blue . |
| 2 | Though he descended , was made low , now He has been raised up high . |
| 3 | It is just that being shown into the library , which has been shut up these many years , perhaps brought it home to me how very sad it was for … ’ |
| 4 | VULCAN B.2 XM602 has been sectioned up ready for a move away from RAF St Athan , Wales . |
| 5 | He has been put up five pounds for a decisive 2length defeat of Wellknown Character and , as just about the most progressive horse in today 's field , he can scale this extra rung . |
| 6 | This motion has been put up this year because there are changing circumstances which really do require us to give elections to the C E C deeper consideration . |
| 7 | If they 'd been brought up all , all girls maybe their fiction would have been different . |
| 8 | The words seemed to have been dragged up one by one from the depths of himself , like prisoners loaded with chains , and released to the world only with great reluctance . |
| 9 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 10 | In the late nineteenth century , debts had been run up due to the club moving premises twice , plus a falling-off of spectators . |
| 11 | One of them had been blown up four times , minesweeping during the First World War , and in consequence had a chronic twitch . |
| 12 | The following story concerns the sighting of a Deltic seen clearly entering Hadley Wood South tunnel , bearing the number 55020 Nimbus , even though the locomotive had been cut up seven months previously . |
| 13 | On Saturday , he had been tied up all day in the stable , but had taken a walk round the Broad over the lunch hour . |
| 14 | It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner . |
| 15 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 16 | It appears that this bloody bobby had been locked up two or three times . |
| 17 | At any rate , they had known that the Nilsen girl had n't delivered her message unless they were guessing , word having got around that she had been picked up unconscious . |
| 18 | ‘ The head of our company is most displeased with Mr Goode and me , ’ Cave said in June , talking on the telephone to an Iranian who was unenthusiastic about weapons prices that had been marked up 300 percent ; ‘ He said if they do n't want to deal , break it off . ’ |
| 19 | The earth had been churned up black where forestry vehicles had passed through during the week , and there were cut and trimmed logs waiting for collection alongside the track . |
| 20 | Progress had been held up due to a national dispute involving water companies . |
| 21 | Last December , Congress charged that money set aside for cleaning up several of the 400 ‘ top-priority ’ dumps had been held up last autumn so as not to benefit local Democratic officeholders , who were fighting off Republican challengers in the November elections . |
| 22 | The budget , which was subject to a Knesset vote later in the year and which assumed US Congressional approval of fresh loan guarantees [ see p. 37749 ] had been drawn up contrary to recommendations by Finance Minister Itzhak Moda'i for a US$470 million cut in the military budget . |
| 23 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 24 | In France the direction des consulats et des affaires commerciales which had been set up some years earlier was reorganised in 1882 . |
| 25 | He himself had been brought up first to obey orders and then to give them in the expectation of instant compliance , and was unacquainted with more complex patterns of relationship . |
| 26 | She knew she had been brought up these last few years with her Aunt Alice and Uncle Stan because of the instability at home . |
| 27 | They 've been brought up different way have n't they . |
| 28 | Other ones here , an anonymous call from Birmingham , I have been beaten up weekly by my ex-husband because he 's been told to pay more . |
| 29 | Sixty-hour weeks have been chalked up several times ! |
| 30 | At least two whales believed to have been affected by sonar have been washed up dead on the beach at Abu Dhabi . |