Example sentences of "been [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 2 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 3 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 4 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 5 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 6 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 7 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 8 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 9 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 10 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 11 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 12 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 13 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 14 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 15 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 16 | mm just been to pick up a chap you see for the dance , you know across the |
| 17 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 18 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 19 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 20 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |
| 21 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 22 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 23 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 24 | And from his Portakabin headquarters behind barbed wire round the back of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre complex , ‘ actually a great improvement on the one room we had inside until this month ! ’ , he 's been lining up a string of new sponsorship deals . |
| 25 | How long you been going up the Rainbow Centre ? |
| 26 | So how long you been going up the Rainbow Centre ? |
| 27 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |
| 28 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 29 | In the letters Bush suggested compromise terms for the two issues which had been holding up an agreement on a conference , namely the question of UN representation and the nature of the conference itself . |
| 30 | Daylight would have been shining up the gallery from that east window . ’ |