Example sentences of "been [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 2 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 3 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 4 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 5 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |
| 6 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 9 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 10 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 11 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
| 12 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 13 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 14 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 15 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 16 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | The Daughters of the American Revolution had been racking up a heavy rep in the past few months . |
| 19 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |