Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 2 | It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures . |
| 3 | Some people prefer to hold the script ; others like to read off a lectern , which can be simply a tray propped up on a couple of books . |
| 4 | They vary from the smallest tin shack propped up against a breakwater to the smartest yacht club in Cowes — but you will find the same enthusiasm for the sport in each . |
| 5 | A female clerk in the advertising department owned up to a cream skirt ; Tavett to cream trousers ; and Linley to a cream shirt . |
| 6 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 7 | Eye-witnesses told how eight police vans and three patrol cars swept up to a house in the street , flooding the area with police officers . |
| 8 | And ee , all the kids ended up with a prize did n't they ? |
| 9 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 10 | ‘ You have an inoperable cancer of the right lung , ’ said the great man , and he pointed to a large X-ray photograph blown up on a screen in front of us . |
| 11 | Kingfisher risks having its bid held up by a Monopolies Commission investigation because of the grip it would have on the electrical retailing market if it controlled Dixons and Currys as well as Comet . |
| 12 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 13 | Black silk skirt maroon blouse her hair done up in a bun draped with gold jewellery oh talk about looking the part ! |
| 14 | As the title suggests , this is the tragedy of Thomas Fox ; the narrative draws out the disintegration , physical and mental , of an innocent boy caught up in a world of inexplicable rules and inescapable brutality . |
| 15 | And did he have their little scarves sewn up into a patchwork quilt ? |
| 16 | Is it like the sidings built up like a coach ? |
| 17 | When a plan drawn up during a period of supply crisis fails to analyse thoroughly the question of the balance of supply and demand this of course is no ‘ external ’ defect , no ‘ formal ’ omission , but a profoundly internal fault . |
| 18 | Although in every case the judge must balance the commercial or property rights of the plaintiff in controlling the information against the value of the defendant 's right of free speech , for many judges brought up in a world which accords pre-eminent value to rights of property , this may seem like balancing hard cash against hot air . |
| 19 | Book-oriented homes lead to book-oriented children : a child brought up in a home where reading is encouraged as a major activity is more likely to read voraciously from an early age . |
| 20 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 21 | A girl brought up in a convent with the whole town knowing her circumstances could not be expected to feel any warmth towards the people who lived in splendour over in Westlands . |
| 22 | Keighley were not keen to visit the Humbersiders on Saturday because they claim that they had a sponsor lined up for a home game . |
| 23 | The actual configuration taken up in a solvent , in the liquid or in the solid , will , however , depend upon the sum total of all the interactions whether intrachain or interchain rather than upon the nearest neighbours only . |
| 24 | Every so often there was a little crab corpse or a twist of sand thrown up by a sandworm or a streak of brilliant green weed like the hair of a water nymph and sometimes a smooth small rock and beside it a still , clear , tiny pool with mussels , blue black and pearly . |
| 25 | I decided this had to be done puristically and had a young boy dressed up as a girl in the play . |
| 26 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 27 | On a G7 scorecard drawn up by a coalition of environmental groups , Britain came bottom on efforts to tackle pollution and global warming . |
| 28 | The slipstream built up to a scream , and despair drugged his actions . |
| 29 | LIFESPAN will report discrepancies between this reference and the versions called up by a package during QA checking . |
| 30 | One day there might be a bleary-eyed buzzard with his wing taped up in a splint , looking very sorry for himself ; the next there might be a baby sparrow basking under a red heat-lamp , recuperating from the attentions of a cat . |