Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] up at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 3 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 4 | Jones , once a Royal Yacht engineer and a lifeboat mechanic on Anglesey , has been tied up at the Arden Arms for two years . |
| 5 | A PROJECT for budding photographers has been set up at a Newton Aycliffe school . |
| 6 | Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) . |
| 7 | A new business development unit has been set up at the station , which will work closely with IRS in foraging for potential leads . |
| 8 | In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade . |
| 9 | Three makeshift stalls had been set up at the entrance to a shopping mall . |
| 10 | Today 's training exercise was only able to go ahead because of an emergency packing operation which has been set up at the base . |
| 11 | The sensory room has been set up at the Ormerod school in Oxford alongside the normal toy room . |
| 12 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
| 13 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 14 | Jackson had been put up at a boarding house , to await the arrival of Herbert Chapman next morning . |
| 15 | When the British papers printed that Scotland Yard believed the silver to have been dug up at the Barbariga army base and smuggled by a Yugoslav diplomat , the Federal commission said , ‘ The press is to be criticised for all such insinuations ’ and ‘ the control of the diplomatic bag is so rigorous in Jugoslavia that it is absolutely impossible for the treasure or anything else to be smuggled out that way ’ . |
| 16 | Aid convoys have been backed up at the border since Monday after Gen Morillon said he would not leave Srebrenica until aid was allowed through . |
| 17 | At least ten works have already been snapped up at the private view , so my advice is to get to Billingham as soon as you can . |
| 18 | ‘ And saying , ’ said Wendy , ‘ that he 's been held up at a confinement when he 's forgotten all about somebody . ’ |