Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had been taught how to set up a simple charge with detonator and fuse . |
| 2 | In France , tanks and riot police have been drafted in to break up the blockade of lorries , but the dispute continues . |
| 3 | Now plans have been drawn up to scrap up to forty jobs and some services … the second round of cuts in a year . |
| 4 | Hays had been called in to clean up Hollywood following the wave of scandals which began when Roscoe ‘ Fatty ’ Arbuckle was tried for rape and manslaughter , and continued with the murder of William Desmond Taylor . |
| 5 | Through him the notion of the responsible use of power by a divinely ordained ruling class was introduced directly into the educational system , and boys were exposed systematically and en masse to an idea which only a few of them could have been counted on to pick up informally at home . |
| 6 | They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information . |
| 7 | She kept in the background , realizing that she had only been brought along to make up numbers . |
| 8 | Sixty seconds before the interval , Smith restored Hadleigh 's lead in a goalmouth scramble after a succession of shots had been charged down to set up a thrilling second-half . |
| 9 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |