Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 . |
| 2 | Been properly carved up , he had … |
| 3 | If the will has been properly drawn up , the dog 's legacy will be administered by an independent trustee . |
| 4 | Yet when they have been properly set up , they can give splendid results . |
| 5 | Article 17 — the provision of aid to assist joint investment schemes by farmers for fodder production and for ‘ the improvement and equipping of pastures ’ , perhaps also drainage — could have implications in the LFAs in the UK but the existing , very similar provisions have not been widely taken up . |
| 6 | Ray , a Veterans Athletic Club road and cross-country runner , has been slowly picking up speed during his first six or seven years back in the sport and he 's now a top-ranked man . |
| 7 | Even Dmitri 's sorrow had been mostly used up by the fading of his father 's life , remorselessly , year by year . |
| 8 | Both Salvadorean and Honduras security forces have raided the camps and refugees and community workers have been badly beaten up or even killed . |
| 9 | She 'd been badly beaten up , poor kid . |
| 10 | According to their records , she had not lost consciousness , but she had been badly shaken up . |
| 11 | She had been badly shaken up and obviously distressed by the experience . |
| 12 | With the colour changer now available , the whole thing has been greatly speeded up and this patterning has almost become fully automatic , at least when using only four colours . |
| 13 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 14 | The Signature 's neck feels glossier , and the action at the bridge has been better set up so that the strings lie well above the ashtray 's sides ; otherwise both guitars are very playable , with good , low nuts and buzz-free actions . |
| 15 | She 's been terribly cut up about her brother . |
| 16 | British Gas has been swiftly building up its interests in the new developments to build up a new earnings stream and gain access to supplies . |
| 17 | Well if Dan had n't rung then I 'd have been extremely fed up . |
| 18 | Like most human beings of whatever condition or culture who send out and receive such close scrutiny in a public place the two of them dimly sensed at one tissue-thin layer within the oldest parts of themselves that the strangely alternating processes of mutual assessment had not been entirely used up . |
| 19 | MICROBETTER and Airflow Communications have been compulsorily wound up by court order under the Insolvency Act at the request of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 20 | I did n't know , thought it had been so built up . |
| 21 | If he had n't been so puffed up with conceit , the buffalo that had not been noticed by the Moi might now be basking contentedly in the shallows of the river . |
| 22 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 23 | I will because Mr Mayor I think that councillor started off his response to this by talking about ghettos and a lot of differences between the better off and the worst off and I , the feeling I got from his speech was that what he was actually driving at was he was attempting to perpetuate the class distinction that the Labour party have been so bound up with over the years . |
| 24 | Seldom has a team been so fired up prior to a major match , due largely to the pompous comments of Tipperary manager Babs Keating , who should have known better . |
| 25 | Only everything 's been so buggered up today in general … , ’ |
| 26 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 27 | Jack 's been so cut up about poor Charlie . |
| 28 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 29 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |
| 30 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |