Example sentences of "been [verb] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the gambling stories may have been exaggerated to cover up some story of compromising letters and blackmail , and the matter is obscure . |
| 2 | Equally , Enoch Powell 's speeches in the 1960s which might have been designed to stir up racial animosity between the various Commonwealth communities , had only a limited impact , with Powell himself becoming politically marginalized . |
| 3 | ‘ Chances have been missed to build up indigenous industry . |
| 4 | Finally given the schedule , the detailed room description , and these architectural considerations , ( amongst others ) an attempt has been made to draw up some exemplar plans and two of these are illustrated . |
| 5 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 6 | This information has been used to draw up magnetic maps , similar in style to contour maps . |
| 7 | In the United States the Anti-Trust laws have been used to break up existing private monopolies and prevent the formation of new monopolies through mergers of existing companies . |
| 8 | ‘ The plants are sometimes wrongly labelled and boxes of mixed plants have been known to come up all the same colour . ’ |
| 9 | This is news to me ; the widespread cattle mutilations across the American midwest in the past two decades are variously blamed on cultists , aliens or government experimentation , but , as far as I am aware , no actual proof has ever been found to back up any one of these hypotheses . |
| 10 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , at the end of a year when insufficient Terminal courses had been provided to use up all available Ministry grant , he commented that ‘ we may find it increasingly difficult to resist a reduction in the number of tutor-organisers we now employ , let alone claim a further appointment , if additional Terminal courses are not successfully organised in both established and new centres ’ . |
| 11 | I 've been asked to straighten up all the lampshades . |
| 12 | One of its shareholders had been allowed to run up substantial debts to the company resulting from trading between him and the company and it had been agreed that he could repay by instalments . |