Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 2 | She has been signed up as front-page girl for Vogue and a host of other glitzy US fashion magazines . |
| 3 | Though he descended , was made low , now He has been raised up high . |
| 4 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 5 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 6 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 7 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 8 | The Dark Ones are demanding , but he has been bearing up remarkably . |
| 9 | ‘ Now I am just glad he has been locked up , so he ca n't do this type of thing to anyone again . |
| 10 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 11 | He has been caught up in his club 's poor form , the former English champions having slipped into the bottom half of the Premier League . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Penini knows I think it good that he is considerate and sensitive — he has been brought up to see no merit in violence , and when he is a man he will be as his father , entirely lacking in those so-called manly virtues of domination and arrogance towards women . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 15 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 16 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
| 17 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 18 | It has been built up since 1975 by combining Fiat 's original truck division in Italy with foreign acquisitions : Unic in France , Magirus in Germany , Pegaso in Spain and Iveco Ford in the UK ( in which Fiat has a 48% stake , but controls operations ) . |
| 19 | A purpose will be to reassess the value of our penal system as it has been built up until now — but much more than that . |
| 20 | It has been built up by observation and/or training , and stored . |
| 21 | Make no mistake : nothing in the Bill will safeguard the interests of the employees of the Scottish Bus Group after it has been broken up and sold of , perhaps to the highest bidders . |
| 22 | Only when it has been chewed up almost to a liquid can the food pass through the rumen , and on through the gut . |
| 23 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |
| 24 | ( This story seems to have originated in North America half a century ago and it has been cropping up all over that continent ever since . ) |
| 25 | The area around the crack should be thoroughly cleaned and the two-part resin filler applied after it has been mixed up in accordance with the instructions . |
| 26 | It has been drawn up following a widespread survey in the towns of Chelmsford , Southend and Colchester . |
| 27 | The parties are later sent by post either a summary decision or a full written decision as soon as it has been typed up and signed by the chairman , which is accompanied by information about applying for a review of the decision and of appealing to the Employment Appeal Tribunal . |
| 28 | It was feared the collection , offered for sale by Lord Brownlow , would go abroad , but it has been snapped up for £220,000 by Lincolnshire County Council , backed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum . |
| 29 | It has been snapped up by a consortium led by Cinven , a venture capital giant backed by the Coal Board Pension Fund . |
| 30 | Such has been the success of the piece on a short provincial tour , that it has been snapped up by The Globe in the centre of London 's theatreland . |