Example sentences of "who has be [vb pp] up [prep] " 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 | Richard said , still sounding no more than irritated , and a trifle superior , like someone who has been held up on his way home by a street brawl . |
4 | She finds a fisherman who has been washed up on the shore . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | He has met his brothers at the fair which accompanies the hiring but otherwise there has been no joy ; certainly nothing to bring to his wife , Emily , who has been driven up to the town and found refuge in the house of a local schoolmaster , Mr Stephens . |