Example sentences of "who have be [vb pp] up in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the time he shifted about from one foot to the other , more like a naughty schoolboy who has been hauled up in front of the head master than a genie rubbed out of a bottle . |
| 2 | Pakistan 's main doubt is skipper Javed Miandad who has been laid up in London with a stomach complaint since leading Pakistan to Test victory at the Oval . |
| 3 | An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal . |
| 4 | When he went up to Cambridge he met another American who 'd been brought up in England , whose father was a journalist in the London bureau of the Washington Post , and he 'd had a thing about graveyards , too . |
| 5 | She says many youngsters who 've been brought up in care are often incapable of looking after themselves when they leave . |
| 6 | ‘ I can never understand people who 've been brought up in your country . |
| 7 | Alexander told her about the Venus of Arles , who had been dug up in the Roman circus there , classically graceful with both her arms , holding up the golden or marble apple . |
| 8 | IN JULY last year I wrote about the brothers Peter and David Mason and their father Peter , who had been banged up in Liverpool jail for more than a year , though they had n't been convicted of anything . |
| 9 | Yet we also have the example of Robert Ferguson , the Whig plotter who had been mixed up in the Rye House intrigues and Monmouth 's Rebellion . |
| 10 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 11 | They were ‘ assez fins , astutes et inconstans daffection ’ — ( sufficiently subtle , astute and inconstant in affection ) — a very unattractive lot , in other words , apart from those courtiers who had been brought up in France . |
| 12 | Married in the summer of 1938 to the Reverend Geza Wulwick , who had been brought up in Czechoslovakia , and who spoke fluent German , she and her husband settled in Middlesbrough and almost immediately started collecting money for refugee children . |
| 13 | She was a shy , retiring girl who had been brought up in a convent school after being abandoned as a baby . |
| 14 | At the other extreme was a Filipino who had been brought up in the slums of Manila , his father an alcoholic drug dealer and his mother a whore . |
| 15 | Also , unlike others who had been brought up in more cultured surroundings , it was a rarity for him to go to the theatre and even more of a rarity to go to other forms of public entertainments , including the cinema . |
| 16 | Champions who have been made up in Jamaica give some insight into the breed 's development : Chesara Dark Warrior of Copeland , owned by Clyde Fisher ; Chesara Lady Macbeth of Copeland , again owned by Clyde Fisher ; Attilla Brunhild of Natra , owned by E. Mignott ; Chesara Dark Conspirator , owned by D. Walcott ; Tasika Angus , owned by D. Judah ; Lacie of Copeland , owned by T. Dunn ; Carbeth-S Black Concha , owned by W. Evering ; Paraiso 's Black Caesar , owned by Clyde Fisher ; Paraiso 's Black Jack , owned by Mr and Mrs M. Fox ; Sundance Poirot Northwind , owned by Winston Tucker ; Sundance Genevive Hellraiser , owned by Winston Tucker ; Sundance Loyal Duchess , owned by Winston Tucker ; Maowm Monty of Kemour , owned by Owen Munroe ; Sundance Doctor Bojangles of Phillsburgh , owned by Mrs Andrea Phillips ; Sundance Baroness , owned by Winston Tucker ; Sundance Black Charisma , owned by Mrs C. K. Galma-Tucker ; Sundance Ballet Princess of Phillsburgh , owned by Peter Phillips ; and Kempshots Drumbeat , owned by Meg Phillips . |
| 17 | ‘ Doctor , while I can appreciate your academic enjoyment at finding an intellectual equal , I really think you might do better to devote at least some of your attention to the lesser mortals who have been caught up in — ‘ |
| 18 | There are several ways in which assistance might be available to people who have been caught up in some of those unfortunate schemes . |
| 19 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 20 | erm I find I 'm not sure that any of us can erm cope with what 's going on at the moment in the Gulf without having just ways of distracting ourselves , erm and I think that perhaps might be more of a problem for adults than it is for children , in the sense that erm most of us have access to more information than most children do erm and more information about what death means , and what suffering means , and what pain means , than erm most children who have been brought up in this country . |
| 21 | She 's just a chit , and a knowin' one at that , who 's been brought up in a different atmosphere . |