Example sentences of "they [verb] be [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Richmond 's complaint is based on what they say was shown up by the video . |
| 2 | But today they contacted their colleagues in Oxford to say they 'd been held up by blizzards . |
| 3 | They 'd been caught up in gunfire at home in Beirut , which left them paralysed . |
| 4 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 5 | If they 'd been brought up all , all girls maybe their fiction would have been different . |
| 6 | Those they select are passed up to Waugh 's desk whether they are lost in the plethora of paper that almost obscures the wood . |
| 7 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 8 | Well , I was alright , I learnt all about the harness eventually , and there 's in the you know , this throwback business when they 've been harnessed up . |
| 9 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 10 | Local residents in Wootton have become increasingly worried that high-intensity paint spraying will bring unpleasant smells and health hazards to the area , and they 've been backed up by local M P , John Patten as well as the Vale of White Horse District Council , whose planning committee have voted to stop Hartwells expanding their Wootton site into what they described as an industrial park . |
| 11 | I 'm very happy that they 've been picked up and that they will now be on their way to Chile . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater . |
| 13 | What I really love about these guitars — the 12-strings especially — is that they 've been set up with the lowest , most buzz-free actions imaginable . |
| 14 | Occasionally , it just looks as though someone 's not going to turn up because for one reason or another they 've been held up . |
| 15 | And how many people can be sure of things about themselves when they 've been brought up to please other people ? |
| 16 | he says , ‘ But they 've been brought up short when they 've suddenly realised just how complex these job evaluation schemes are — and just how much care has to be taken when introducing them . |
| 17 | They 've been brought up different way have n't they . |
| 18 | The thing about the Paddies is that some of them can pass as English if they 've been brought up here . |
| 19 | . I mean it 's very much again the way they 've been brought up , because they do n't feel that they 've got to earn respect and love . |
| 20 | He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money . |
| 21 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
| 22 | Yes and then they 've were forked up in the carts , what the bogeys are nowadays , and then they would have made stacks and stack yet . |
| 23 | They had been geared up to use so much physical energy that even when they were very old they had a dynamic force within their bodies for which they had no outlet . |
| 24 | No wonder they had been covered up . |
| 25 | ‘ They had been covered up by layers of varnish and paint over the years and no-one knew what lay underneath . ’ |
| 26 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 27 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 28 | During the war and the revolution many old criminal families , living on the outskirts of the town or in bandit villages , left their influence behind even after they had been broken up . |
| 29 | It seems they had been beaten up in some way by other prisoners but we do not know who . ’ |
| 30 | Some of the African students taken into custody by the police claimed they had been beaten up . |