Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 2 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 4 | I 've been cooped up with my work , but I 'm sure my security staff would have notified me of any unexpected guests . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Do you know who we 've been stood up by ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 7 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been picking up after them all night and all morning . |
| 10 | Myler said : ‘ I 've been fed up of injuries and played only eight matches last season after a neck operation . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 12 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 13 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 14 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 15 | Local residents in Wootton have become increasingly worried that high-intensity paint spraying will bring unpleasant smells and health hazards to the area , and they 've been backed up by local M P , John Patten as well as the Vale of White Horse District Council , whose planning committee have voted to stop Hartwells expanding their Wootton site into what they described as an industrial park . |
| 16 | But I suspected you were — well , feeling the way you did because of the way I 've been wrapped up in work , rather than because of any change in your condition . ’ |
| 17 | Graham , when he came to pick me up , would stand back and burst into song , like that man in " Gigi " : " Why , you 've been growing up before my very eyes ! " |
| 18 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been stitched up by the Richardson gang ’ |
| 21 | K. I 've been held up at Paddington , John . |
| 22 | Now I do n't know if you 've been brought up on a diet of men who jump in and out of bed with whatever women take their fancy , but if you have then I suggest you go find one of them to satiate your appetite . |
| 23 | When you 're on blankets and you 've been brought up on blankets er you 're used to blankets |
| 24 | It depends what you 've been brought up with though dun n it ? |
| 25 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
| 26 | Yeah , and of course they say it 's easier , but if you 've been brought up with it , well yes it 's dead easier |
| 27 | And how many people can be sure of things about themselves when they 've been brought up to please other people ? |
| 28 | Interrupt — difficult to do if you 've been brought up to be polite , but necessary to learn . |
| 29 | ‘ This is a battle for me but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 30 | Following last night 's 2–0 defeat by the USA he said : ‘ This is a battle for me , but I 've been brought up to battle . |