Example sentences of "been [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 2 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | mm just been to pick up a chap you see for the dance , you know across the |
| 6 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 11 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 12 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
| 13 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 14 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 15 | so it 's been been tightened up a bit . |
| 16 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 17 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |
| 18 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 19 | been playing up a bit . |
| 20 | Said Guy 's been playing up a bit lately has n't he ? |
| 21 | The Daughters of the American Revolution had been racking up a heavy rep in the past few months . |
| 22 | After the computer has been started up a number of times — possibly 90 — the damage starts . |
| 23 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 24 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 25 | A correctly fitting sack is essential to enjoyable walking , especially when carrying a heavy load and the SA harness and hip belt on the Condor have been beefed up a bit from the Jaguar and Panther models . |
| 26 | ‘ Just been clearing up a bit . ’ |