Example sentences of "been [verb] up for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 4 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |
| 5 | John told her that Mick , who had finished his examinations for Higher School Certificate , had been called up for the Royal Air Force . |
| 6 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 7 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |