Example sentences of "[been] [verb] up in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 2 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 3 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 4 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |
| 5 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 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 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 8 | Positivists , of all varieties , have consequently been caught up in an endless quest for a universal , objective but non-legal concept of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 9 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 10 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 11 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 12 | Yet we also have the example of Robert Ferguson , the Whig plotter who had been mixed up in the Rye House intrigues and Monmouth 's Rebellion . |
| 13 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |
| 15 | By the middle of the eighteenth century alluvial workings had been opened up in the Ural mountains . |
| 16 | The one person whom Kate had always seen as constant and good had been shown up in a dark light . |
| 17 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 18 | Large British forces had been tied up in an expensive operation to which there seemed to be no obvious military solution other than counter-guerrilla operations in Sabah and Sarawak and the deployment of large forces to discourage further escalation of the conflict . |
| 19 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |
| 20 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 21 | That said , the Vet scene has charged his zest for running which otherwise might have been swallowed up in the 40-something concentration on family , career and mortgage . |
| 22 | The Duke turned abruptly back , intending to inform his lordship that he did not permit duelling among his officers , but Rossendale and Jane had been swallowed up in the crowd . |
| 23 | The steam boiler had been set up in a shed at the back of the offworlder 's house . |
| 24 | A FEARLESS new organisation has been set up in a bid to finally solve the world 's greatest murder mystery the assassination in Dallas of American president John F. Kennedy . |
| 25 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |
| 26 | A Christmas tree had been set up in the corridor with fairy lights that winked on and off . |
| 27 | Responding to other free-trade zones that have been set up in the region , Bolivia , Colombia , Venezuela , Peru and Ecuador will progressively reduce tariffs and other regional trade barriers . |
| 28 | The first ‘ tent cities ’ for a few thousand people have been set up in the plain near Zakho . |
| 29 | Through the development of disused buildings on the refinery site and a £500,000 loan fund , 170 small businesses have been set up in the area , employing 1,200 local people . |
| 30 | LGCM had been set up in the 1970s ; it rented a room in St Botolph 's , Aldgate , a church well-known for work with single homeless people in London . |