Example sentences of "who have be [vb pp] up by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , much later , when she had occasion to meet a policeman 's wife , a woman who had been beaten up by her husband for taking a lover on the nights he was on duty , the wife said to her , ‘ Well , you ought to understand . |
| 2 | There was a house somewhere near , where women who had been beaten up by their husbands stayed . |
| 3 | Beck , who had been woken up by the Oscar-nominee , offered him a bed in the living room but told him to take a cab over . |
| 4 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 5 | Sir Christopher designed most of the buildings himself , but left the design of ‘ The Castle , to the terrifically fashionable architect John Carr of York , who had been taken up by the Yorkshire gentry after his triumph with the design for the grandstand on the racecourse at Knavesmire . |
| 6 | Although David Cecil was and always had been a devout Christian , he became the favourite candidate of those who resented the ‘ clerical candidate ’ , the man who had been put up by Lewis , just because he was a Christian . |
| 7 | Gabriel Oak was a sensible man of good character , who had been brought up by his father as a shepherd , and then managed to save enough money to rent his own farm on Norcombe Hill , in Dorset . |
| 8 | He talked of the misery of his marriage to his wife , and the evil character of you , Monks , his only son , who had been brought up by your mother to hate him . |
| 9 | That is something to do with Traidcraft that they erm they quite often work with groups who have been set up by carriages from Europe . |