Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Er weddin' dress 'ad been run up for 'er by Mrs Stuart that 'ad only just give up 'er job workin' for a dressmaker in Shoreditch . |
| 2 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 3 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 4 | Then this lad who 'd been padded up with John come round to see us . |
| 5 | But today they contacted their colleagues in Oxford to say they 'd been held up by blizzards . |
| 6 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 7 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 8 | They 'd been caught up in gunfire at home in Beirut , which left them paralysed . |
| 9 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 10 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 11 | There he 'd been picked up by his mother Ruth . |
| 12 | It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate . |
| 13 | I mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |
| 14 | He walked away to the desk , collecting his key , and as he walked towards the lifts he flicked a quick glance back to the girl who 'd been brought up as his daughter . |
| 15 | Xanthe for her part considered her image beside the young woman she 'd been brought up with , and thought how sorry she felt for her . |
| 16 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 17 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 18 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 19 | He could n't speak Arabic , as he 'd been brought up in Zanzibar . |
| 20 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 21 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 22 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 23 | When he went up to Cambridge he met another American who 'd been brought up in England , whose father was a journalist in the London bureau of the Washington Post , and he 'd had a thing about graveyards , too . |
| 24 | It was quite away from the area I 'd been brought up in , but I got to like it and make friends , and I got more independent . |
| 25 | ‘ I wish I 'd been brought up in one of these , ’ he said , ‘ rather than a tower block . |
| 26 | I think he was an Aberdonian really the way he spoke anyway but he 'd been brought up in Blair Gowrie . |
| 27 | She wondered how he would be now if he 'd been brought up in the Down Manor Orphanage . |
| 28 | Rona was intensely practical in matters of charity , but then she 'd been brought up in a manse and was reading social studies . |
| 29 | Certainly Joanne Menzies appeared not to recognize him , although he 'd rather regretted choosing the character of Detective-Sergeant McWhirter of Scotland Yard when she revealed that she 'd been brought up near the Kyles of Bute . |
| 30 | A low-loading trailer had been fixed up as a platform for the clergy who led the service and the singing . |