Example sentences of "[verb] to be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The horses do n't need to be lined up military fashion waiting for the cavalry charge , ’ added Mr Green , who has seen every National live since 1946 . |
| 2 | Just as it is sensible to place notices in braille at hand level or just above so that they can be easily read with the fingers , so visual material needs to be put up near to eye level if it is to be seen or read without difficulty by all the pupils . |
| 3 | Only if it is ‘ blown ’ , for example on a tax-cut-financed consumer boom , can the government be said to be piling up financial trouble for future governments . |
| 4 | I seemed to be taking up more than my share of the space , and the grief was bad again . |
| 5 | There was an endless pause , as Roman seemed to be weighing up this piece of sheer bravado . |
| 6 | Poor Jasper happened to be curled up asleep some five feet away at the time and was rudely awakened . |
| 7 | But if er if it all going to one side I think it 's going to be take up half the window wo n't it . |
| 8 | Where do you think that more money needs to be spent ? erm well , the government are in the process of launching a massive new initiative called Care in the Community erm I 'm afraid a lot of people working in my neck of the woods find this rather well not amusing , but erm it 's slightly hysterically amusing , because the amount of money that would be needed to fund the projects that are identified as being necessary is enormous , and the government is in no way going to be putting up that sort of funds erm so it comes down to money , and particularly in this community care area . |
| 9 | Well , they 're going to be brought up dishonest . |
| 10 | They seem to be buying up half Europe … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If someone shot that other dog , ’ said Lee , ‘ Caspar would n't have to be locked up all the time . ’ |
| 12 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 13 | oh he 's , he seems to be grown up all of a sudden |
| 14 | I , you know , usually for the hundred tonight I meant to be served up one packet and that means Wednesday buying |
| 15 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 16 | ‘ Mandy , Nelson , ’ Matthew called , ‘ the canoes need to be pulled up higher . |
| 17 | Indeed , as number one player the market , St Louis Park , Minnesota-based Digiboard Inc , seems to be revelling in the disarray — it claims to be mopping up many of Computone and Specialix 's European deals . |