Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] be [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history of Venice has long been bound up with a pageant of ships . |
| 2 | As a little boy , Adam had sometimes been sent up here in the morning to fetch the letters and the paper , carrying with him a wicker bottle-basket for the milk . |
| 3 | Doubtless Hirondelle had already been blown up , just as my own boat would be butchered if I insisted on challenging this man . |
| 4 | That was £45,000 over the odds , even for a brand-new model — and he had to get a secondhand one because back in 1989 the prestige-car market was still booming and the limited supply of Lamborghinis imported from Italy had already been snapped up . |
| 5 | Blair kicked a penalty five minutes later , and five minutes before half-time Hastings scored the easiest of pushover tries after centre Paul Archer had initially been held up on the line . |
| 6 | For Rio has indeed been cleaned up ; not only through the grisly environmental ‘ improvements ’ — the murder of its street-children — but by constant clearances of the poor , exiled to vast cities on the periphery : down the long , dangerous ten-lane concrete canyon of the Avenida do Brasil . |
| 7 | Given my own predicament , I was left in no doubt that Cooper and Murphy had also been fitted up . |