Example sentences of "he has been [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he descended , was made low , now He has been raised up high . |
| 2 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 3 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 4 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 5 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 6 | The Dark Ones are demanding , but he has been bearing up remarkably . |
| 7 | ‘ Now I am just glad he has been locked up , so he ca n't do this type of thing to anyone again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He has been caught up in his club 's poor form , the former English champions having slipped into the bottom half of the Premier League . |
| 10 | He has been put up five pounds for a decisive 2length defeat of Wellknown Character and , as just about the most progressive horse in today 's field , he can scale this extra rung . |
| 11 | ‘ Penini knows I think it good that he is considerate and sensitive — he has been brought up to see no merit in violence , and when he is a man he will be as his father , entirely lacking in those so-called manly virtues of domination and arrogance towards women . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 13 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 14 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
| 15 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |