Example sentences of "[verb] up by [art] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |
| 2 | Shades of the Mediterranean are conjured up by the aquas and terracottas from Oneworld Trading 's accessories . |
| 3 | ( He was later picked up by the Italians and made a prisoner . ) |
| 4 | Am I going to some strange hospital with him to see his dad , or am I going to wander around Bristol all day waiting to be picked up by the police or my poor darling anxious parents ? |
| 5 | The house is seized by the demolition contractors , its park invaded and churned up by the tractors and trailers of the timber merchant . |
| 6 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 7 | If people are working in groups , anyone who spends too long recording or drawing will either be hurried up by the others or excluded from the group 's progress . |
| 8 | Subtract that figure from the score notched up by the weeds and we shall then be in a position to predict the number of traits that an average crop plant would have to acquire in order to become weedy . |
| 9 | The issue of military corruption thrown up by the Pinocheques and La Cutufa cases [ see pp. 37852-53 ] had severely damaged the image of the army , which had projected itself as incorruptible and on this basis had hoped to defend itself successfully against charges of human rights abuses during the military dictatorship . |
| 10 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
| 11 | The most determined resistance of all was put up by the Koryaks and Chukchis of the north-east , who faced a fierce and explicitly genocidal Russian campaign up to the 1750s . |
| 12 | Brian Lane ( schoolteacher ) : ‘ One thing I remember about David was something that he did n't take part in , which was a concert held at the school in aid of a pavilion that was being put up by the parents and teachers , and being paid for by them . |
| 13 | The stones were dug up by the earthmovers and placed here by farmer , Richard Cox . |
| 14 | Anyone partaking in the dungaree revival outside the privacy of their own bedroom should be strung up by the braces and hooked on a lamp-post for the crows to peck at |