Example sentences of "[been] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 2 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 3 | The management has , very decently , been slapping up borrowed works of art . |
| 4 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 5 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 6 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 7 | I 'll been looking up these things . |
| 8 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 9 | Oceans have been picking up soluble materials ( notably sodium chloride — salt ) from the land , for millions of years . |
| 10 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 11 | He 's been made up this morning , he 's had a big tax rebate , fifteen hundred quid ! |
| 12 | They had already been hauled up eight times , the first during the summer of 1981 , and had been fined a total of £23,200 . |
| 13 | Special recruitment drives have been organised , " model agreements " governing when and under what conditions temporary workers might be used , and " casual workers " charters ' have been drawn up Some unions , notably the electricians , have gone further , establishing local registers of ( otherwise ) unemployed members from which employers have to draw when filling the temporary positions enterprise level agreements have permitted them to create . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 15 | Back in the car G. repeats that the day has been typical except we have n't been called up on the radio and he 's been called up twenty-nine times in the last month . |
| 16 | On Saturday , he had been tied up all day in the stable , but had taken a walk round the Broad over the lunch hour . |
| 17 | The Old Stager was on to a theme which he had clearly been bottling up all season . |
| 18 | I 've been getting up three times . |
| 19 | The vultures have been buying up other bonds likely to be similarly treated . |
| 20 | Previously , only trade in new horn was banned but , with a single horn fetching as much as £30,000 , Chinese dealers have been buying up big game trophies for export to the Far East . |
| 21 | In France the direction des consulats et des affaires commerciales which had been set up some years earlier was reorganised in 1882 . |
| 22 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 23 | When she had finished , her whole body throbbed , ached , was raw , as if she had been cutting up small pieces of herself . |
| 24 | ‘ The head of our company is most displeased with Mr Goode and me , ’ Cave said in June , talking on the telephone to an Iranian who was unenthusiastic about weapons prices that had been marked up 300 percent ; ‘ He said if they do n't want to deal , break it off . ’ |
| 25 | They 've been brought up different way have n't they . |
| 26 | The following story concerns the sighting of a Deltic seen clearly entering Hadley Wood South tunnel , bearing the number 55020 Nimbus , even though the locomotive had been cut up seven months previously . |
| 27 | Bosnia is in worse condition now than had it been split up last year . |
| 28 | Sixty-hour weeks have been chalked up several times ! |
| 29 | Well the Boat Race has been livened up this year with the publication of True Blue . |
| 30 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |