Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [be] [vb pp] up " in BNC.

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1 This group of NFL stalwarts were in Scotland as part of the World Partnership programme which has been set up to assist in the development of American football at amateur level in Europe .
2 Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula .
3 The home-help walked down the road towards Marie , wheeling her bike which had been propped up against the curb .
4 Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer .
5 I enclose two copies of a contract which has been drawn up for the tape .
6 ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’
7 ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’
8 The Israeli government also announced on Aug. 23 that some of the approximately 280 houses in the West Bank and the Gaza strip which had been sealed up by the army since 1987 would be unsealed .
9 But for now Kylie harnessed it to press on with the next stage of her ten year plan which had been drawn up by her musical gurus .
10 He walked away to the desk , collecting his key , and as he walked towards the lifts he flicked a quick glance back to the girl who 'd been brought up as his daughter .
11 Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class .
12 She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show .
13 She was a shy , retiring girl who had been brought up in a convent school after being abandoned as a baby .
14 No wonder they had been covered up .
15 At the other extreme was a Filipino who had been brought up in the slums of Manila , his father an alcoholic drug dealer and his mother a whore .
16 ‘ But one likes doing things for people , ’ said Ianthe firmly , for of course she had been brought up to think that one should , though perhaps this situation was a little different .
17 ‘ But at the moment nothing has been firmed up .
18 Merton is the second of two major ventures in the recruiting business which have been set up by entrepreneurial Michael Silverman .
19 The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns — and then he saw the cordon and roadblock with its black-and-white wooden pole which had been set up ahead , blocking off the entrance road which led up to the office-block frontage and car park .
20 What I want to ask is , firstly , who are you funded by , and these teams , I note erm paragraphs three erm these nurses and so on , are they existing staff , or is this a new team , erm management team which has been set up at yet more expense to the health authority ?
21 I am thinking of a feeling of confidence which has been built up and which it would take some drastic change to break down .
22 One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 .
23 Other community teams dealt with all their reviews in one regular weekly meeting which had been set up to meet the requirements of the care programme approach , evidence that this is having a considerable impact on the organization of services in the places where it has been implemented .
24 Controls comprised 21 patients with ileal pouches constructed during the same period who had been followed up for a mean duration of 43 months ( range 15–119 months ) and who had had endoscopies that showed no evidence of active inflammation .
25 Samuel Whitbread had extracted a fine of £5 from a malefactor who had been brought up before him in his magistrate 's court ; this became a donation to the infirmary .
26 She finds a fisherman who has been washed up on the shore .
27 Then this lad who 'd been padded up with John come round to see us .
28 If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved .
29 By contrast , those who were involved in the new machinery of public credit which had been set up as a result of the financial revolution were doing remarkably well , through their investments in institutions such as the Bank of England and the New East India Company , and from the interest they received on loans to the government .
30 It 's safe to say that every child in every culture will go through a period of saying that the pencil which has been moved up is now longer or bigger or big now .
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