Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] up [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Salvadorean and Honduras security forces have raided the camps and refugees and community workers have been badly beaten up or even killed . |
| 2 | She had been badly shaken up and obviously distressed by the experience . |
| 3 | With the colour changer now available , the whole thing has been greatly speeded up and this patterning has almost become fully automatic , at least when using only four colours . |
| 4 | By the time the complex details of the preventative works had been finally drawn up and agreed we were again running out of time . |
| 5 | He must have been more fed up than most at the defeat after opening the scoring in the 13th minute , his first goal of the season . |
| 6 | With Prime Minister 's Question Time at last over , those of us waiting to catch the Parkinson statement now found it had been further held up while one of the defence ministers made a laborious job of unwrapping the Ministry of Defence 's Christmas present for the navy — three new frigates . |
| 7 | There were already a great number of the little red sold labels on many of their antique boxes , and other exhibits , which had been quickly snapped up when the Fair officially opened earlier . |
| 8 | He too had been strictly brought up but seems to have shrugged off his mother 's influence in that as easily as he resisted her attempts to make him a practising Jew . |
| 9 | It 's not simply a matter of defying conventions although I admit I have been strictly brought up and I think it would break my parents ’ hearts if ever they came to know I was living with a man who was not my husband . |
| 10 | Everywhere the capricious darting hand of Grace had lighted on the fallen , the ordinary , and they had been briefly lit up and magnified in that illumination . |
| 11 | When that time was up an envoy from the Iranian Embassy in Paris had been violently beaten up when he called at the shipowner 's apartment . |