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been locked up for fifty years
“That chest has been locked up for fifty years, and it’ll stand being locked up one more night.
— from The Story Girl by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

been locked up for fifty years
They have been locked up for fifty years.
— from The Lady of Lynn by Walter Besant

be locked up for five years
To stand up before a judge and be tried,—and then to be locked up for five years in prison—!
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope


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