Example sentences of "been [verb] up into a " in BNC.

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1 The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another .
2 Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula .
3 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 .
4 Although by 1086 the Barton estate had been split up into a number of manors , of which only one was still in the hands of the king himself , there can be little doubt that before the Conquest the Anglo-Saxon kings had had here an estate of some seven thousand acres which they kept in hand for their own supplies .
5 Epidermal cells have been thrown up into a small mound at the site of closure .
6 The grass in the middle had been ploughed up into a dustbowl , and here and there pools of dark blood showed where bodies thrown out had lain before being taken away to hospital .
7 ‘ Sex is important to everybody but I think it 's been blown up into a thing that you must have and do . ’
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