Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 3 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |
| 4 | I have been brought up wrong . |
| 5 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 6 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 7 | This is particularly true if you have been divided up into teams . |
| 8 | Do not simply give a list of the work you have been doing up to date but show how the experience you have gained in the other job has directly fitted you to do the new one . |
| 9 | ‘ You know you have no father or mother , ’ said the first man , ‘ and that you have been brought up with other orphans ? ’ |
| 10 | Anyway I said to our Pam well you have been brought up to do things like that and not only that if I found a pound on the floor I 'd pick it up that 's different . |
| 11 | This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis . |
| 12 | ‘ We have been drawing up profiles of potential smugglers so that we know who or what type of people to look for using intelligence sources . |
| 13 | We have been following up leads . ’ |
| 14 | But we have been brought up to respect these intellectual tools so much that they supplant the innocent insight of a child . |
| 15 | We have been brought up to regard the house as our domain , and , despite wanting a man to pull his weight , can resent the feeling of being usurped . |
| 16 | erm , when we are victims of crime , and personally I think that there are two main reasons for that , one reason certainly is that when women erm are victims of crime that there is of a sexual nature or domestic violence , part of the way that we have been brought up and part of the way that those crimes have been portrayed , is to portray them as our fault |
| 17 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
| 18 | I 've watched Howard Kendall 's side recently , and the stuff they have been serving up has been bordering on the pathetic compared to earlier performances this season . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | PULSARS that are members of binary systems in globular clusters are all rapidly rotating , and it is assumed that they have been spun up by accretion from binary companions . |
| 21 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 22 | Since 1985 , when this team started its evangelising , they have been filling up ; congregations sometimes top 1,000 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 25 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 26 | For many reasons they often lack the superficial selfconfidence of men , especially if they have been tied up by domesticity for years . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , they have been cooped up here for some time , ’ Ana pointed out . |
| 28 | They have been building up balances in their current account for some four months . |
| 29 | For Opposition Members to paint a negative picture of TECs failing to do what they have been set up to do is not good enough , because , after all , they have been in existence for only two years . |
| 30 | Sometimes , like Gardencourt and possibly Poynton , they have been bought up by those who admire their antiquity , but have no connection with their land or history . |