Example sentences of "been [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 3 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 4 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 5 | The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another . |
| 6 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 7 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 8 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
| 9 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 10 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 11 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 12 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 13 | As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis . |
| 14 | The latter had now been built up to a reasonable size with the main mill , a dye house , out buildings , stove , stables , press shop and store houses , as well as the grist mill . |
| 15 | Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula . |
| 16 | Now employing two people , this is the only one-stop bike shop in the area and has been built up into a thriving business as people have become more aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle . |
| 17 | The reputation of this division has been built up by a dedicated management team , many of which have been involved in contractual cleaning operations as well as in-house posts . |
| 18 | It is an interesting thought that this whole design has been built up from a series of interlocking rectangles . |
| 19 | The Ferrari has been built up from a shell at an unlikely location on the edge of the Forest of Dean . |
| 20 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 21 | Again she was plied with whisky , but this time in hot water and sweetened with brown sugar ; she was then led to the sitting-room couch that had been made up as a bed for her . |
| 22 | They 're the ones that could have been made up from a kit , I always think , each part clearly demarcated ( bill , box-like head , neck ) — a rather angular goose . |
| 23 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 24 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |
| 25 | Constitutional fundamentals have been opened up with a vengeance . |
| 26 | Some years earlier , the same issues had been opened up from a more consciously theological angle by the Halle professor Martin Kähler . |
| 27 | A number of unused tickets , from not only the BCR have been turning up with a date in the year 1933 . |
| 28 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |
| 29 | The different LFA zones in the Auvergne have been drawn up on a Commune by Commune basis , each Commune being allocated completely to one zone or another with the exception of 11 Communes which are partly within one or other of the zones . |
| 30 | Without qualifying their opinion , auditors Hacker Young draw attention in their report to the basis on which the industrial textiles group 's accounts have been prepared ; they have been drawn up on a going concern basis . |