Example sentences of "have been [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 2 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 3 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 4 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 5 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 6 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 7 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 8 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 9 | He has now undergone a total of 10 operations , of which five have been to straighten up the three remaining toes on his left foot . |
| 10 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 11 | Teachers have been clearing up the mess and the headmaster says some lessons will be held in a nearby school later this week . |