Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] up for " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Oh , Charlie , you know my mind 's been made up for years . |
| 32 | It 's been put up for sale by the Gloucester Health Authority , which would like to see it renovated . |
| 33 | It 's a performance story that 's been adding up for over a decade . |
| 34 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 35 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |
| 36 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |