Example sentences of "had be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the late nineteenth century , debts had been run up due to the club moving premises twice , plus a falling-off of spectators . |
| 3 | One of them had been blown up four times , minesweeping during the First World War , and in consequence had a chronic twitch . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On Saturday , he had been tied up all day in the stable , but had taken a walk round the Broad over the lunch hour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 10 | It appears that this bloody bobby had been locked up two or three times . |
| 11 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | It had been shortly before the war and Liza had been coming up thirteen . |
| 15 | The earth had been churned up black where forestry vehicles had passed through during the week , and there were cut and trimmed logs waiting for collection alongside the track . |
| 16 | Progress had been held up due to a national dispute involving water companies . |
| 17 | Last December , Congress charged that money set aside for cleaning up several of the 400 ‘ top-priority ’ dumps had been held up last autumn so as not to benefit local Democratic officeholders , who were fighting off Republican challengers in the November elections . |
| 18 | The budget , which was subject to a Knesset vote later in the year and which assumed US Congressional approval of fresh loan guarantees [ see p. 37749 ] had been drawn up contrary to recommendations by Finance Minister Itzhak Moda'i for a US$470 million cut in the military budget . |
| 19 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 20 | When she had finished , her whole body throbbed , ached , was raw , as if she had been cutting up small pieces of herself . |
| 21 | In France the direction des consulats et des affaires commerciales which had been set up some years earlier was reorganised in 1882 . |
| 22 | He himself had been brought up first to obey orders and then to give them in the expectation of instant compliance , and was unacquainted with more complex patterns of relationship . |
| 23 | She knew she had been brought up these last few years with her Aunt Alice and Uncle Stan because of the instability at home . |
| 24 | Wallace , who had been playing up front with McClair to no devastating effect , moved out to his usual position on the left wing , with similar results . |