Example sentences of "been [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been building up balances in their current account for some four months . |
| 2 | The considerable scope for destocking — the main cause of the recession of the early 1980s — was highlighted by the CSO , which said industry had been building up inventories of unsold goods for two years . |
| 3 | The local doctor had sent for St Andrew 's ( hardly expecting me ) because the patient had been bringing up blood , and St Andrew 's had a specialist unit dealing with internal bleeding . |
| 4 | Do you , have you had much contact erm with , with anyone who , with erm any parents at the flats that ha have been bringing up kids there ? |
| 5 | Gertrude Jekyll had not been available to design the garden at The Tamarisks when Lutyens had been drawing up plans for the house , but she was shown these plans and her advice was sought . |
| 6 | ‘ We have been drawing up profiles of potential smugglers so that we know who or what type of people to look for using intelligence sources . |
| 7 | The Tysons have yet to see any cash payment from the liquidators who have been winding up BCI 's affairs . |
| 8 | The railway track had been torn up years earlier — a cutting fined with ivy-covered telegraph poles marked it now — but the house , in need of a few coats of paint , was just next to the old railway bridge . |
| 9 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 10 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |
| 11 | People have been scrambling up Cust 's Gully for over 100 years , and in dry conditions it should pose no problems — although it is not particularly attractive and I only included it because it was such a traditional route . |
| 12 | The recession has clearly presented good buying opportunities to Prospect Industries though Philip Wilbraham denies he is a vulture purchaser who has been picking up bargains on the cheap . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , strong underlying trends have been pushing up costs in the United Kingdom as they have in other countries — the increasing sophistication of medical treatment , the survival of those who would have died in an earlier decade , new and expensive drugs , the growing awareness amongst the public of potential treatments , a reluctance to merely grin and bear pain and discomfort , and above all the ageing of the population . |
| 14 | The biggest disillusionment , however , came from the way some American journalists have been roughing up Gérard Depardieu , the larger-than-screen hero of ‘ Cyrano ’ . |
| 15 | The pub at which they had finally arrived and had their pints had been serving up bar meals . |
| 16 | Over the past few years foreign telephone companies , and the Baby Bells , have been snapping up stakes in newly privatised telephone companies in New Zealand , Mexico and Argentina , and mobile-telephone franchises even in rich countries such as Britain and Germany . |
| 17 | It looked a shambles on the live broadcast , but by the evening showing it had been cleaned up thanks to some additional mobile camera coverage . |
| 18 | Acorn 's policy has been to buy up sound but somewhat shabby family-owned hotels as and when opportunity offers , and to renovate them to an extent consistent with the company 's ‘ image ’ of old-fashioned comfort . |
| 19 | And then she said : ‘ Mebbe he 's one of that gang that has been holding up grocery stores . ’ |
| 20 | He 's been licking up fag ash . |
| 21 | From the recent work of Clive Partridge at Skeleton Green , Herts , it is clear that a trading post had been set up c . |
| 22 | One of the aims of both Tim Grant and myself has been to build up expertise and knowledge of expert systems within the Engineering Branch . |
| 23 | Edward IV 's solution had been to build up Herbert power until the family and their allies dominated most of Wales on the crown 's behalf . |
| 24 | Edward IV 's solution had been to build up Herbert power until the family and their allies dominated most of Wales on the crown 's behalf . |
| 25 | ‘ You wait till I tell him she 's been spending up West . |
| 26 | But in the society where she had been brought up marriage was still very much the expected norm . |
| 27 | But Staggs 's Gardens had been cut up root and branch . |
| 28 | ‘ Have you been digging up ferns ? |
| 29 | Attracted by rents that have risen faster than in all other European cities bar Madrid , developers have been throwing up office blocks on sites from Cologne and Munich to Berlin . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been working up north , ’ I smiled , convinced that for her the North began at Cannon Street . |