Example sentences of "have be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |
| 2 | Well the Boat Race has been livened up this year with the publication of True Blue . |
| 3 | Though he descended , was made low , now He has been raised up high . |
| 4 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 5 | It is just that being shown into the library , which has been shut up these many years , perhaps brought it home to me how very sad it was for … ’ |
| 6 | VULCAN B.2 XM602 has been sectioned up ready for a move away from RAF St Athan , Wales . |
| 7 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 8 | Developed from the Laser 28 , the RF290 has been notching up some impressive results , winning at least three class 1sts in the Hamble Winter Series . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This motion has been put up this year because there are changing circumstances which really do require us to give elections to the C E C deeper consideration . |
| 11 | Centre-half Ian Marshall , who has been playing up front since the start of last month , is out for three weeks after breaking a finger and Neil McDonald is likely to miss the Middlesbrough game with hamstring trouble . |
| 12 | If they 'd been brought up all , all girls maybe their fiction would have been different . |
| 13 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 14 | The outcome would have been to open up 14 million hectares of rainforest , so that Cameroon could achieve the TFAP 's target of becoming ‘ the most important African exporter [ of timber ] from the start of the twenty-first century . ’ |
| 15 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |
| 16 | The words seemed to have been dragged up one by one from the depths of himself , like prisoners loaded with chains , and released to the world only with great reluctance . |
| 17 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 18 | In the late nineteenth century , debts had been run up due to the club moving premises twice , plus a falling-off of spectators . |
| 19 | One of them had been blown up four times , minesweeping during the First World War , and in consequence had a chronic twitch . |
| 20 | The following story concerns the sighting of a Deltic seen clearly entering Hadley Wood South tunnel , bearing the number 55020 Nimbus , even though the locomotive had been cut up seven months previously . |
| 21 | On Saturday , he had been tied up all day in the stable , but had taken a walk round the Broad over the lunch hour . |
| 22 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 23 | It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner . |
| 24 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 25 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 26 | It appears that this bloody bobby had been locked up two or three times . |
| 27 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 28 | At any rate , they had known that the Nilsen girl had n't delivered her message unless they were guessing , word having got around that she had been picked up unconscious . |
| 29 | ‘ The head of our company is most displeased with Mr Goode and me , ’ Cave said in June , talking on the telephone to an Iranian who was unenthusiastic about weapons prices that had been marked up 300 percent ; ‘ He said if they do n't want to deal , break it off . ’ |
| 30 | It had been shortly before the war and Liza had been coming up thirteen . |