Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up and the " in BNC.

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1 All pretence that the paper ever belonged to MacQuillan personally had been given up and the title transferred to a newly formed company within the MacQuillan empire .
2 The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame .
3 Over the past sixty years the buildings housing the scientific laboratories and teaching classrooms have been built up and the population of students and staff has grown until there are now nearly one thousand registered postgraduate students and over one thousand academic , research and support staff .
4 push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away
5 She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut .
6 From here you can look at the menu that has been set up and the vast flexibility that 3DMenu offers .
7 What had occurred was precisely the sort of ‘ semi-hysterical outburst of militancy ’ which McCann had criticised , and far from exposing and isolating the Nationalists , an informal united front had been struck up and the politicians were being allowed to clamber onto the DHAC 's bandwagon .
8 Needless to say , thanks to an over-dependence on Hawkins 's remark , this has never been followed up and the harpsichord can no longer be identified .
9 Huge tents , open-fronted , had been put up and the Empress came in state with all her ladies , veiled to the eyes , and took her place on the throne .
10 The next day County issued a press release announcing that 48.9% of the shares had been taken up and the rest sold on the market .
11 The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale .
12 Ever since then the custom has been kept up and the two halves clasped together for the marriages where it is applicable . ’
13 The debris from today 's accdient has now been cleared up and the road re-opened .
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