Example sentences of "[verb] up by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was once rung up by the great Frank Sinatra himself . |
| 2 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 3 | When it was vacated no steps were taken to have it boarded up by the local authority . |
| 4 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 5 | He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s . |
| 6 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |
| 7 | This philosophy of helping elderly people return to or stay in their own or small-scale homes will be picked up by the new centres . |
| 8 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 9 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 10 | The various whirrings and whinings which may be emitted by the camcorder itself , not to mention any noises which you make while operating the controls , are liable to be faithfully picked up by the on-board microphone . |
| 11 | Already re-invented by top international designers , the short skirt will undoubtedly be picked up by the high street stores , and once again start to look new . |
| 12 | Already re-invented by top international designers , the short skirt will undoubtedly be picked up by the high street stores , and once again start to look new . |
| 13 | Any ferret can carry the transmitting device that provides the signal to be picked up by the hand-held locator . |
| 14 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 15 | The State Department in Washington still must decide what to do with the migrants , apparently picked up by the Panamanian-registered East Wood from an island off China to be smuggled to Hawaii . |
| 16 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 17 | Although the ex the special allowance was actually withdrawn , but nevertheless , the responsibility for generally dealing with it , was picked up by the local authority . |
| 18 | The weapons will start to arrive in December ; they are supposed to match the arms build up by the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Both are liable to be wound up by the English court . |
| 20 | Hambros Jersey 's contention , if correct , would mean that the jurisdiction of the English court under the sections would be much more restricted than the circumstances in which an individual may be adjudged bankrupt or a company may be wound up by the English court . |
| 21 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 22 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |
| 23 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 24 | Seaweed floats loosely around in a sea churned up by the stormy waters . |
| 25 | Spinrad says that such a huge range in velocity is quite unexpected It could be stirred up by the central jets which produce the radio emission . |
| 26 | The People 's Militia has been busy ripping down posters put up by the Civic Forum in factories and elsewhere . |
| 27 | The People 's Militia has indeed been busy ripping down posters put up by the Civic Forum in factories and elsewhere . |
| 28 | He got phoned up by the other players ? |
| 29 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 30 | There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project . |