Example sentences of "she have [be] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 2 | She has been signed up as front-page girl for Vogue and a host of other glitzy US fashion magazines . |
| 3 | Xanthe for her part considered her image beside the young woman she 'd been brought up with , and thought how sorry she felt for her . |
| 4 | Rona was intensely practical in matters of charity , but then she 'd been brought up in a manse and was reading social studies . |
| 5 | Certainly Joanne Menzies appeared not to recognize him , although he 'd rather regretted choosing the character of Detective-Sergeant McWhirter of Scotland Yard when she revealed that she 'd been brought up near the Kyles of Bute . |
| 6 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 7 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 8 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 9 | It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate . |
| 10 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 11 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 12 | Somehow she managed to take a proper breath , not the little shallow gasps she had been giving up to now . |
| 13 | She had been brought up to be thrifty and careful . |
| 14 | But she understood , because she had been brought up on a farm . |
| 15 | She had been brought up on Ireland 's suffering under British rule . |
| 16 | It was this lack of division that most effectively concealed from Clara the basic , classic structure of the building , for she had been brought up with the notion that walls must be above eye-level , lace curtains impenetrable , bedrooms facing discreetly into the void . |
| 17 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 18 | Despite describing a happy childhood , she told her therapist about how she had been brought up in a family where she felt unappreciated and undervalued . |
| 19 | She had been brought up in the most isolated of spots — although , perhaps , because of its very isolation and Granny Tremayne 's aloofness , she had simply known about , but not exactly experienced , communal village life . |
| 20 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 21 | She was thinking of a bleak room in a small block of flats in Streatham , the curtains drawn to keep in the heat , the walls weighed down with the knick-knacks of a happy life : the flat she had been brought up in . |
| 22 | She had been brought up by clear-thinking women . |
| 23 | She had been woken up at one in the morning by Mr Landor and again at four , and both times he had been abusive , calling her ‘ a bitch as fat and stupid ’ as his wife . |
| 24 | A few moments ago she had been burning up in his arms , caught up in the fever of his lovemaking , but now the blood seemed to have turned to ice in her veins , frozen by his uncaring tones . |
| 25 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | ‘ She 's been taken up to her dressing room . |