Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw yesterday' in Markstadt a shelter which has beds for 100 of these children ; 42 children had died in the last 24 hours , but these places had been filled up . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 3 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 4 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 5 | The stile is stopped up and , and res erm children particularly are clambering over the bridge in order to use the footpath , which actually does end at the stile , which has been stopped up , erm through the nature reserve . |
| 6 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 7 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 8 | The work went on until the last marcher had been patched up . |
| 9 | Now you 've been patched up , your hull 's been scraped , a lick of paint and you 're ready to get back into the great sea of life . |
| 10 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 11 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 12 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 13 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 14 | Both options C1 and C2 , retain a line from March to Spalding , in East Anglia This line was closed last year and the track has been ripped up . |
| 15 | Bed after regular bed shows a dark , laminated lower portion which I identify as an algal mat type deposit that has been ripped up and incorporated , in a graded fashion , in " cleaner " , paler sediment from offshore . |
| 16 | Now the track has been ripped up , the station master 's house and station have been converted into homes , and the architecturally-unique waiting-room ( or workman 's shelter ) seems to have fallen down . |
| 17 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 18 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 19 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 20 | The home-help walked down the road towards Marie , wheeling her bike which had been propped up against the curb . |
| 21 | So , I think possibly a little more thought in the actual , I think the actual shape of the girl there , the way she 's actually sitting is fine , but er it , it looks as if she 's been propped up with , you know , you better put this stool under your foot to hold that up and put this crutch under your arm to hold that up and |
| 22 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 23 | Men and boys were sent to look for him , the ponds and the river were dragged , and by morning hopes of finding him alive had almost been given up . |
| 24 | In early March , during a long visit to the Wordsworths made by Coleridge and Sara — now heavily pregnant with her second child was decided that once Alfoxden had been given up , they should all set sail from England and travel in Germany . |
| 25 | Racedown seems to have been given up without regret ; what was important was ‘ Coleridge 's society ’ . |
| 26 | It may seem strange that such an important and renowned healing centre should have been given up so easily and so early , and this may reflect the despoliation and depredations by members of the House of Constantine . |
| 27 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 28 | Sufferers are never too young nor too old , too early in the disease nor too late to get into recovery when they truly want it : the " Big Books " of other Fellowships record many stories of recovery in sufferers who had been given up as hopeless . |
| 29 | All pretence that the paper ever belonged to MacQuillan personally had been given up and the title transferred to a newly formed company within the MacQuillan empire . |
| 30 | To anyone who did n't know that the place had been given up , soldiers would look as natural there as seagulls . |