Example sentences of "been [verb] up on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 2 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 3 | For the province 's future Olympic hopefuls have been brushing up on skills both on and off the sports fields . |
| 4 | Men have always been hung up on breasts , especially American men , and in those days it was the only part of the body which could be shown . |
| 5 | Hundreds of dead and dying dolphins have been washed up on beaches in Greece and Turkey . |
| 6 | Radioactive seaweed has been washed up on beaches near Sellafield 's outlet pipeline . |
| 7 | Menlo Park , California start-up , Wide Area Information Servers Inc , has productised some network publishing software for Unix servers that has been testing up on Internet for the last two years : WAIS Server and Workstation for Unix cost from $10,000 to $50,000. +1 415 617 0444 . |
| 8 | A network of four new business forums has been set up on Wearside , after the success of Hendon 's business initiative . |
| 9 | The commission had been set up on June 4 to examine the implementation of the May 28 Sejm resolution on the exposure of former agents [ see p. 38972 ; the resolution had in fact originally called for exposures by June 6 , not June 20 as stated on that page ] . |
| 10 | The bars have been set up on ground floor windows of Coatham Mill , a listed building . |
| 11 | The bars have been set up on ground floor windows of Coatham Mill , a listed building . |
| 12 | She had been brought up on Ireland 's suffering under British rule . |
| 13 | When you 're on blankets and you 've been brought up on blankets er you 're used to blankets |
| 14 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 15 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 16 | Hundreds of dead dolphins have been washing up on shores in the Mediterranean recently , leaving scientists puzzled as to the cause . |
| 17 | ( Illegal posters acclaiming the overthrow and execution on Dec. 25 of the Romanian leader , Nicolae Ceausescu , had reportedly been put up on university campuses but quickly removed by the authorities . ) |
| 18 | Calls for Bakatin 's removal had been taken up on Dec. 1 by the Soyuz ( " Union " ) group of conservative deputies in the Congress , the very people who had nominated him in March to run against Gorbachev for the presidency . |
| 19 | Now it is , now this matter has been taken up on behalf of the company , by the constitutary European Member of Parliament John Tomlinson and colleagues . |
| 20 | His main rival has been tuning up on Burford golf course . |
| 21 | Horne , third choice at Millwall , has been snapped up on loan by Boro boss Lennie Lawrence . |