Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years .
2 Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see .
3 I 've been rigging up a crush .
4 Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products .
5 Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree .
6 How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’
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