Example sentences of "been [verb] up at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 2 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 3 | No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights . |
| 4 | A production company has been set up at Pixar producing commercials and Lasseter is now predicting a fully computer-generated movie within the next three or four years . |
| 5 | A sports club has been set up at Cleadon Park Community Centre in South Shields for girls aged 10 to 16 . |
| 6 | A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry . |
| 7 | A Parallel Processor Assessment Group has been set up at NPL as part of a wider interest within the System Architectures Committee in the collection and dissemination of reliable information on performance assessment of novel computer architectures . |
| 8 | A mortgage adviser 's ‘ office ’ — shaped like a house — has been set up at Bradford Branch . |
| 9 | Schmidt-Richberg reported that , as from the previous day , Army Group E's HQ had been set up at Feistritz , in 5 Corps area on the north side of the Alps , and that a huge force under his command , comprising some 300,000 German and 200,000 Groat troops , most of them armed , was approaching the frontier with Austria from the south . |
| 10 | An incident room has been set up at Milton keynes and police are working on information that Mr Letts managed to tell them before he died . |
| 11 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 12 | The Threarah 's rather good at making himself unpleasant when he 's been woken up at ni-Frith for what he considers a piece of trivial nonsense . |
| 13 | One in which , on a single day , he could have been rounded up at bayonet-point or celebrated a cigarette . |
| 14 | A group of them have been rounded up at Gagosian from 14 January to 20 February . |
| 15 | Scaffolding worth £200 which had been put up at Firthmoor Infants School in Estoril Road South , Darlington , has been stolen . |
| 16 | As part of the NSE marketing drive , notices giving details of local places to visit have been put up at stations along the line , including the intermediate stops at Bures and Chappel and Wakes Colne — home of the East Anglian Railway Museum . |
| 17 | FOOTBALL hero Paul Gascoigne 's dirty underwear has been snapped up at auction . |
| 18 | A petrol station assistant and her friend have been held up at knifepoint . |
| 19 | K. I 've been held up at Paddington , John . |