Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] up for " 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 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 3 | John told her that Mick , who had finished his examinations for Higher School Certificate , had been called up for the Royal Air Force . |
| 4 | Controls comprised 21 patients with ileal pouches constructed during the same period who had been followed up for a mean duration of 43 months ( range 15–119 months ) and who had had endoscopies that showed no evidence of active inflammation . |
| 5 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 6 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 7 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 8 | The Home Office spokesman said he could not comment on reports that the men had been beaten up for allegedly ‘ grassing ’ on other prisoners in the wing . |
| 9 | Anyone who entered the prison had to pay a fee and Athelstan recollected , that one of his parishioners , too poor to pay , had been beaten up for his poverty whilst Fitzosbert had stood by , smiling all the time . |
| 10 | They were afraid in that some time or another , some of the fellers on the corner had been locked up for obstruction . |
| 11 | The boarding plank had been taken up for the night . |
| 12 | All the ships , large and small , which had been held up for days past , had now unfurled their sails and were putting to sea . |
| 13 | This was a house where four IRA men , surrounded by the police , had been holed up for a number of days . |
| 14 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter . |
| 15 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) . |
| 16 | There the rooms were filled with ancient furniture , preserved under white sheets , as if the house had been closed up for the summer only , while its occupant was absent . |
| 17 | With my letter , I sent you two copies of an Agreement that had been drawn up for signature on behalf of AT&T , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements . |
| 18 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 19 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |
| 20 | There are two pightles in this parish , both referring to elongated pieces of land , relics of the time when such shapes were left at the edge of a field after it had been divided up for strip-cultivation . |
| 21 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 22 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 23 | The 77,000 acre Mar Lodge Estate , which contains remnants of the ancient Caledonian forest , had been put up for sale by its American owner , John Kluge , at an asking price of £10 million . |
| 24 | At Thirsk a lamb with a broken leg had been put up for sale , and transit offences to cattle and sheep rose from no convictions in 1990 to 15 last year . |