Example sentences of "we have been [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis . |
| 2 | ‘ We have been drawing up profiles of potential smugglers so that we know who or what type of people to look for using intelligence sources . |
| 3 | We have been following up leads . ’ |
| 4 | But we have been brought up to respect these intellectual tools so much that they supplant the innocent insight of a child . |
| 5 | We have been brought up to regard the house as our domain , and , despite wanting a man to pull his weight , can resent the feeling of being usurped . |
| 6 | erm , when we are victims of crime , and personally I think that there are two main reasons for that , one reason certainly is that when women erm are victims of crime that there is of a sexual nature or domestic violence , part of the way that we have been brought up and part of the way that those crimes have been portrayed , is to portray them as our fault |
| 7 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |