Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 2 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 3 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 4 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 5 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 6 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A correctly fitting sack is essential to enjoyable walking , especially when carrying a heavy load and the SA harness and hip belt on the Condor have been beefed up a bit from the Jaguar and Panther models . |
| 10 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 11 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 12 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 13 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 14 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 15 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 19 | Teachers have been clearing up the mess and the headmaster says some lessons will be held in a nearby school later this week . |
| 20 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |