Example sentences of "been [verb] up for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 2 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 3 | Professional counselling is the best way forward for you because your feelings have been bottled up for so long . |
| 4 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 5 | An inaugural meeting of the Merseyside Music Industry Association has been set up for tomorrow night . |
| 6 | The tank has been set up for about 5–6 weeks and houses five Tiger Barbs and five Serpae Tetra . |
| 7 | Despite this the symptom of urgency is invariably improved and all 81 patients with ulcerative colitis who have been followed up for more than six months state that they can defer defaecation for more than two hours . |
| 8 | The Home Office spokesman said he could not comment on reports that the men had been beaten up for allegedly ‘ grassing ’ on other prisoners in the wing . |