Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 3 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 4 | Racedown seems to have been given up without regret ; what was important was ‘ Coleridge 's society ’ . |
| 5 | In March 1965 a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery , Alabama , had been broken up by police . |
| 6 | A protest by badger lovers who chained themselves to railings at a Ministry of Agriculture culling centre has been broken up by police . |
| 7 | A threatened school teachers ' strike was averted in November , but not before a meeting of school students in support of their teachers had been broken up by riot police . |
| 8 | Twenty five enterprise zones have been designated up to May 1990 throughout the UK . |
| 9 | GREEN Card actor Gerard Depardieu 's eldest son , Guillaume , 22 , has been roughed up in jail while awaiting trial on drug charges , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 10 | Yesterday 's CSO figures showed that the July total had been revised up to £2,487million from the previous £2,225 million figure . |
| 11 | Clubs and societies , such as darts and crib teams , have been wound up in pubs converted to management . |
| 12 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 13 | The court heard that McGregor had been caught up in attempts by a neighbour to end a relationship between his 20-year-old daughter and an older man . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They 'd been caught up in gunfire at home in Beirut , which left them paralysed . |
| 16 | In all three of these novels the ‘ crimes ’ are those committed by basically good people who , through no real fault of their own ( other than the speculative instinct that is the mainstay of the capitalist system ) , have been caught up in bank failures for which they valiantly accept responsibility . |
| 17 | He feels more affinity with the Beltex than the French Texel and says the word ‘ Beltex ’ has been conjured up by UK interests . |
| 18 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 19 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 20 | Novix has been available in the UK since early 1992 and has reportedly been picked up by Parliament , BP , Amerada Hess , GEC and British Telecom . |
| 21 | So Yardie sold 10,000 copies in a few months — an unheard of amount for a small press publication — and has now been picked up by Pan Books which will be putting out a mass-market edition in the new year . |
| 22 | They had been heading back towards London when the strange conflict in the sky had been picked up by UNIT . |
| 23 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 24 | Left home earlyish for his visit by rail to London to see his publishers ; been picked up by taxi at about 7.20 a.m. , almost certainly to catch the 07.59 , arriving Paddington at 09.03 ; obviously with only some fairly quick business to transact since he 'd appeared confident of meeting his commitments with the tourists at lunchtime at The Randolph , and then again during the afternoon ; likely as not , then , he would originally have intended to catch the 11.30 from Paddington , arriving Oxford at 12.30 . |
| 25 | Minutes before , as Stone had slipped surreptitiously from his house , his furtive movement had been picked up by Dan Monteith , stationed at the front of the house , concealed in a neighbouring garden . |
| 26 | I sincerely hope that it has been picked up by accident and that I will be re-united with it soon , as I find it hard to believe that such an incident could lead to its deliberate theft . |
| 27 | Ahead of the appointment of Gerstner , Smith put together a report that listed 10 key things that the new man at IBM should do , and his report has been picked up by Barron 's magazine . |
| 28 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 29 | The broken windows had been boarded up with pieces of wood from the attic . |
| 30 | In the Fawlty Towers belt of Torquay , abandoned hotels have been boarded up against vandals . |