Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 32 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 33 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 34 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 35 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 36 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 37 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 38 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 39 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 40 | He has now undergone a total of 10 operations , of which five have been to straighten up the three remaining toes on his left foot . |
| 41 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 42 | Teachers have been clearing up the mess and the headmaster says some lessons will be held in a nearby school later this week . |
| 43 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 44 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |