Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 2 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 3 | The car had been chased up the M1 as far as Newport Pagnall by two Bedfordshire police patrol cars . |
| 4 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 5 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 6 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 7 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 8 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 9 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |