Example sentences of "have been [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 2 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 3 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 4 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 5 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 6 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 7 | The judge has been summing up the case against Harper and the jury will consider the case against him tomorrow . |
| 8 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 9 | After the computer has been started up a number of times — possibly 90 — the damage starts . |
| 10 | The Project 's approach has been to build up the confidence and self-awareness of different groups to a stage where contact and co-operation among them will be facilitated . |
| 11 | The latest entry , Quarterdeck with the long-awaited Desqview/X , however , has been stirring up the market with some high profile selling , backed by a positive reception from the industry . |
| 12 | This view shows the station still under construction and it will be seen that a temporary track has been laid up the ramp to Infirmary Road to enable materials to be offloaded . |
| 13 | Bull Worldwide Telco has been set up the ‘ better to co-ordinate Bull 's telco strategy and solutions , and to develop new group skills and expertise within the domain . ’ |
| 14 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 15 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 16 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 17 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 18 | Daylight would have been shining up the gallery from that east window . ’ |
| 19 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 20 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 21 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 22 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 23 | The company policy had been to speed up the line and the rate of production . |
| 24 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 25 | In the letters Bush suggested compromise terms for the two issues which had been holding up an agreement on a conference , namely the question of UN representation and the nature of the conference itself . |
| 26 | The car had been chased up the M1 as far as Newport Pagnall by two Bedfordshire police patrol cars . |
| 27 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 28 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 29 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 30 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |