Example sentences of "have been [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought it might have been cleared up by now … |
| 2 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 3 | They 're the ones that could have been made up from a kit , I always think , each part clearly demarcated ( bill , box-like head , neck ) — a rather angular goose . |
| 4 | It is only too easy to forget that there was a time when the fragile flower of Glasgow culture might just as easily have been swept up by the great philistine scaffy man of indifference . |
| 5 | I 've given my word to her mother that I will see to it that she does — she would n't have been allowed to come here on holiday otherwise , she would have been shut up in her mother 's apartment in Rome . ’ |
| 6 | • The object may have been choked up in the child 's mouth . |
| 7 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 8 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |
| 9 | Therefore either the customers must continually be changing identity ( so it is sensible for them to engage in some search ) and some expectation must have been built up about potential high benefits to search , or else search costs must be truly trivial , in order for the potential incumbent to stand a chance of usurping the established firm . |
| 10 | The fields near the margins of the swamp area were probably kept drained by the building of a network of canals : those towards the centre may have been built up above flood level with muck transferred from the canal bottoms . |
| 11 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 12 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 13 | That said , the Vet scene has charged his zest for running which otherwise might have been swallowed up in the 40-something concentration on family , career and mortgage . |
| 14 | In my day — why , Sècheron would have been swallowed up by inner suburbs clustering round the old U.N . |
| 15 | No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights . |
| 16 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 17 | Perhaps it could have been rounded up to seven hundred — still not quite accurate , but at least more accurate ? |
| 18 | One in which , on a single day , he could have been rounded up at bayonet-point or celebrated a cigarette . |
| 19 | So what we know is that this must have been blocked up before this doorway was inserted , okay ? |
| 20 | On Dec. 31 , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi was reported to have said that the Boeing might have been blown up by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) in retaliation for Libya 's disclosures to the United Kingdom government of its former IRA links . |
| 21 | If the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded , Andrewes as Bishop of Ely would have been blown up in the House of Lords together with the King . |
| 22 | The dumb bastard who dreamed that one up should have been strung up by his balls . ’ |
| 23 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 24 | Now Millns is established as one of the most feared and effective fast bowlers on the county circuit , and he might well have been called up for England 's final Test at The Oval but for injury . |
| 25 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 26 | N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January . |
| 27 | ‘ We have a very large number of people who 've been on our books for between a year and 18 months and they are quality staff , people who would have been snapped up within 10 days , three years ago . ’ |
| 28 | So many locations that would before have been snapped up by the professionals will be available to the amateur . |
| 29 | Despite its elegance , the collection managed to depict an image of women so passive that the designs would probably have been snapped up by Qantas as uniforms for its air hostesses in late 1972 . |
| 30 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |