Example sentences of "been [verb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 2 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 3 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 4 | mm just been to pick up a chap you see for the dance , you know across the |
| 5 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 6 | And from his Portakabin headquarters behind barbed wire round the back of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre complex , ‘ actually a great improvement on the one room we had inside until this month ! ’ , he 's been lining up a string of new sponsorship deals . |
| 7 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 8 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 9 | so it 's been been tightened up a bit . |
| 10 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |
| 11 | been playing up a bit . |
| 12 | Said Guy 's been playing up a bit lately has n't he ? |
| 13 | After the computer has been started up a number of times — possibly 90 — the damage starts . |
| 14 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 15 | A correctly fitting sack is essential to enjoyable walking , especially when carrying a heavy load and the SA harness and hip belt on the Condor have been beefed up a bit from the Jaguar and Panther models . |
| 16 | ‘ Just been clearing up a bit . ’ |