Example sentences of "being [vb pp] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he made a mistake : he said that he talked about armchairs being ripped up at Madge 's house , even before you 'd told him about them . |
| 2 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 3 | Of the 34 recurrent duodenal ulcers detected , 23 ( 68% ) occurred in patients taking placebo , most recurrences being picked up at the scheduled 4 , 8 , and 12 month endoscopies ( 15/23 placebo , 7/11 cisapride ) . |
| 4 | It is the amount of this payment which determines whether the business is being hived up at less or more than cost or market value for the purposes of the value-shifting provisions described above . |
| 5 | Thanks to an over rate of 11.2 and the time lost to the weather being made up at the end , that fourth day became the longest in Test history , not finishing until 7.40 . |
| 6 | Torch batteries were being bought up at an alarming rate . |
| 7 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 8 | There is little comfort in being woken up at three in the morning by a fire engine proceeding to a fire . |
| 9 | One of the most interesting new schemes to be put forward is the Jobclubs which are now being set up at Job Centres . |
| 10 | ABOVE A dream-telepathy experiment being set up at Maimonudes laboratory in Brooklyn New York . |
| 11 | A woman who is happy in her job and hates being cooped up at home all day win bring back positive qualities to the household , but on the other hand the strains and stresses of work can also leave their mark on family life . |
| 12 | That came through their being cooped up at Jerusalem in the persecution which followed on the death of Stephen : as a result of the ordinary followers of Jesus being scattered by that persecution , they were able to preach the good news along the Phoenician seaboard until they came to Antioch , later to become the home of the Gentile mission . |
| 13 | She says she hated being cooped up at home , concocting his favourite tuna fish salad . |
| 14 | The public consultations on options for the Ipswich northern bypass is being lined up at the moment at office level for mid nineteen ninety three , there 's still quite a bit of work associated with the preparation for that preliminaries that you see , but a more measurable benefit I think Chairman is er that the , that before there is a recommendation that the threat of widening |
| 15 | Some of the asylum seekers are now being put up at bed and breakfast hotels in Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare . |
| 16 | Have you ever seen a prisoner being beaten up at Easton ? |
| 17 | Too frequently I have made the mistake of buying fresh food once a week and either running out of organisational steam halfway through the week , so all the meals I had planned to cook have fallen by the wayside , or being held up at work or in some other way and grabbing fish and chips on the way home instead . |
| 18 | HEART-THROB singer Richard Marx was left shaking with fear after being held up at gunpoint by Chinese gangsters . |
| 19 | I start to apologize for being held up at work . |
| 20 | A car salesman is recovering after being held up at gunpoint by a man posing as a customer . |