Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 2 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 5 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 6 | Jones , once a Royal Yacht engineer and a lifeboat mechanic on Anglesey , has been tied up at the Arden Arms for two years . |
| 7 | A production company has been set up at Pixar producing commercials and Lasseter is now predicting a fully computer-generated movie within the next three or four years . |
| 8 | Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) . |
| 9 | A new business development unit has been set up at the station , which will work closely with IRS in foraging for potential leads . |
| 10 | In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade . |
| 11 | Schmidt-Richberg reported that , as from the previous day , Army Group E's HQ had been set up at Feistritz , in 5 Corps area on the north side of the Alps , and that a huge force under his command , comprising some 300,000 German and 200,000 Groat troops , most of them armed , was approaching the frontier with Austria from the south . |
| 12 | Three makeshift stalls had been set up at the entrance to a shopping mall . |
| 13 | A Parallel Processor Assessment Group has been set up at NPL as part of a wider interest within the System Architectures Committee in the collection and dissemination of reliable information on performance assessment of novel computer architectures . |
| 14 | A mortgage adviser 's ‘ office ’ — shaped like a house — has been set up at Bradford Branch . |
| 15 | A special meeting has been set up at 10am between traders , the NIO and the Compensation Agency . |
| 16 | Today 's training exercise was only able to go ahead because of an emergency packing operation which has been set up at the base . |
| 17 | The sensory room has been set up at the Ormerod school in Oxford alongside the normal toy room . |
| 18 | An incident room has been set up at Milton keynes and police are working on information that Mr Letts managed to tell them before he died . |
| 19 | A sports club has been set up at Cleadon Park Community Centre in South Shields for girls aged 10 to 16 . |
| 20 | A PROJECT for budding photographers has been set up at a Newton Aycliffe school . |
| 21 | A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry . |
| 22 | What I want to ask is , firstly , who are you funded by , and these teams , I note erm paragraphs three erm these nurses and so on , are they existing staff , or is this a new team , erm management team which has been set up at yet more expense to the health authority ? |
| 23 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 24 | She had been woken up at one in the morning by Mr Landor and again at four , and both times he had been abusive , calling her ‘ a bitch as fat and stupid ’ as his wife . |
| 25 | The Threarah 's rather good at making himself unpleasant when he 's been woken up at ni-Frith for what he considers a piece of trivial nonsense . |
| 26 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
| 27 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 28 | A group of them have been rounded up at Gagosian from 14 January to 20 February . |
| 29 | One in which , on a single day , he could have been rounded up at bayonet-point or celebrated a cigarette . |
| 30 | Jackson had been put up at a boarding house , to await the arrival of Herbert Chapman next morning . |