Example sentences of "had been [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gertrude Jekyll had not been available to design the garden at The Tamarisks when Lutyens had been drawing up plans for the house , but she was shown these plans and her advice was sought . |
| 2 | But Staggs 's Gardens had been cut up root and branch . |
| 3 | The local doctor had sent for St Andrew 's ( hardly expecting me ) because the patient had been bringing up blood , and St Andrew 's had a specialist unit dealing with internal bleeding . |
| 4 | The considerable scope for destocking — the main cause of the recession of the early 1980s — was highlighted by the CSO , which said industry had been building up inventories of unsold goods for two years . |
| 5 | The railway track had been torn up years earlier — a cutting fined with ivy-covered telegraph poles marked it now — but the house , in need of a few coats of paint , was just next to the old railway bridge . |
| 6 | When Tuesday and Debbie were arguing with their Moms whether they should wear a strapless dress to the dance , she had been carving up gang-girls in warehouse arenas , then picking out some cock-for-the-night from the stud line . |
| 7 | It looked a shambles on the live broadcast , but by the evening showing it had been cleaned up thanks to some additional mobile camera coverage . |
| 8 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 9 | From the recent work of Clive Partridge at Skeleton Green , Herts , it is clear that a trading post had been set up c . |
| 10 | Edward IV 's solution had been to build up Herbert power until the family and their allies dominated most of Wales on the crown 's behalf . |
| 11 | Edward IV 's solution had been to build up Herbert power until the family and their allies dominated most of Wales on the crown 's behalf . |
| 12 | But in the society where she had been brought up marriage was still very much the expected norm . |