Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [vb pp] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Staggs 's Gardens had been cut up root and branch . |
| 2 | The railway track had been torn up years earlier — a cutting fined with ivy-covered telegraph poles marked it now — but the house , in need of a few coats of paint , was just next to the old railway bridge . |
| 3 | It looked a shambles on the live broadcast , but by the evening showing it had been cleaned up thanks to some additional mobile camera coverage . |
| 4 | From the recent work of Clive Partridge at Skeleton Green , Herts , it is clear that a trading post had been set up c . |
| 5 | But in the society where she had been brought up marriage was still very much the expected norm . |