Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] up [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll just have lunch , and then I 'm sure you 've got a wonderful programme lined up for this afternoon ! ’ |
| 2 | Getting a bit fed up with this weather . |
| 3 | And butchers next door where you know where shoe shop is on street , well grocers were there on that corner and th when we come here there were hams and bacons hung up outside all night . |
| 4 | I believe these checks and balances built up over many years are essential to the maintenance of true democracy in this country and I commend to Your Lordships Amendments five , eight and eleven for those reasons . |
| 5 | A plan drawn up to this end by Foreign Ministers at a meeting on May 5 in Guatemala City was later embodied in the Tela agreement [ see below ] . |
| 6 | Action : Correct the errors noted up to this point , then run the scanner again . |
| 7 | The political and social tensions thrown up by this strategy became visible in the plans for the rescue and reform of prostitutes which feminists put forward as their alternative to regulation . |
| 8 | Was erm the whole town taken up with these sort of two occupations ? |
| 9 | There is a network of disadvantage in society in terms of income , access to housing , educational and employment opportunities , etc. , and large numbers of families caught up in this network are relatively deprived and vulnerable to breakdown . |
| 10 | Well , I say that , but of course me and my sore back got up to all kinds of stuff . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not spending the day cooped up in this back yard . ’ |
| 12 | The carriage returns set up by this method are termed ‘ soft ’ , as against ‘ hard ’ carriage returns resulting from the return key being pressed . |
| 13 | There seemed to be crowds of people lined up on each side of the door and lots were already seated inside the church waiting for the coffin to enter . |
| 14 | I looked through the window and there were people lined up on both sides of the street , the women with black aprons and the men with their caps and hats off , bared heads bowed as we passed . |
| 15 | She gets a bit cooped up in that hotel sometimes . ’ |
| 16 | For girls caught up in this nexus of processes , the effect is that the feminine role , the ‘ little housewife ’ role and self-definition are blended together in an ‘ unselfconscious complex of unobstructed behaviour ’ . |
| 17 | A reshaped back four took time to settle and Swindon could have had the points wrapped up inside half hour . |
| 18 | The glass used up to that time had had a very poor ‘ memory ’ . |
| 19 | The issues thrown up by these works are hardly remote from the lives of students . |
| 20 | In 1968 , Price reported that the 97 identical and 119 fraternal twin pairs studied up to that date had shown substantially different concordance rates for depression ( 68 per cent and 23 per cent ) . |
| 21 | All the cases analysed up to this point have involved a relationship of incidence between the infinitive and some other verb . |
| 22 | Her patient had finished her tea and now leant back with her eyes closed and the swollen ankle propped up on another chair . |
| 23 | The book was certainly the most thorough document of a country made up to that point in time , and received accolades from all quarters . |
| 24 | As in any full-blown controversy , these polarised positions were the ones taken up by most contributors to the fight . |
| 25 | It is essential to look beyond the public utterance dressed up in these metaphors of battle , and seek the structural forms which determine the ideological base . |
| 26 | Supposing you have taken part in an evaluation exercise and some conclusions have been mutually agreed , do you find that on the whole people are prepared to change their habits presumably in some cases habits built up over many years ? |
| 27 | Anyone who withdraws more than net interest or pledges the Tessa as security for a loan immediately loses the tax exemption and has to pay tax on all interest credited up to that time as though it were income arising during the year when the withdrawal or pledge took place . |
| 28 | The fire burnt up without much trouble . |
| 29 | In a bygone era the postmen and staff of Frensham Post Office lined up for this photo call . |
| 30 | You must have your face covered up in some way on the night : I suggest a balaclava worn back to front , with eye-holes cut in it . |