Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 2 | Expedition organisers confirmed the two men had arrived safely at the Patriot Hills base on the Chilean side of the Antarctic after being picked up by a rescue plane . |
| 3 | Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions . |
| 4 | She says she learned toughness after being brought up in a man 's world by her divorced father , Ryan O'Neal . |
| 5 | SLF are also in danger of being banged up in the Tower Of London for incurring the wrath of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 6 | ‘ Their problems may be acute , and there is a risk of being swallowed up in the mass of an adult ward . |
| 7 | Some of the problems of the relative parts played by waves and currents are in process of being cleared up by the use of traceable sand and shingle . |
| 8 | Telecine Transfer is the recording of film onto tape , normally done in the Telecine Department , but also capable of being fed up to the gallery where a small desk-top electronic camera is set up to record the footage . |
| 9 | Indeed , if they had thought about it , it would have been all too ludicrously reminiscent of being called up before the headmaster . |
| 10 | It was the shock of being included , of being swept up in the word women that came first . |
| 11 | On the other hand , a stock of components can avoid the frustration of being held up on a project because a mundane integrated circuit is temporarily unavailable , or because you have managed to break one lead away from a 100m capacitor . |
| 12 | Missed departure cover is particularly important because there is more chance of being held up on the way to the airport in winter than in summer . |
| 13 | The characterizations consisted of being rolled up into a sphere by Willie , or swung by one arm , or aimed at a dartboard while wearing a trick suction device on his head . |
| 14 | instead of being rolled up in a ball |
| 15 | It all becomes uncomfortably apparent and that which had been lived and accepted is opened up in a revelatory manner , so that the vice of being caught up within the hegemonies of such a system designed to control a powerless underclass can become overbearing . |
| 16 | With so many cables fairly close together it is easy to see why the side stitches remain as loops instead of being picked up with the latch tool at the sides of the cables . |
| 17 | She had an impression of being lifted up from the bed — she had cried out in agony , feeling as if she would break in half — and laid upon a stretcher . |
| 18 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 19 | Despite being caught up in an almost mystical trance , Laura had not entirely forgotten that she was n't the only person swimming in the ocean . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's like being caught up on a bit of barbed wire . ’ |
| 21 | It was like being washed up by the tide and left stranded . |
| 22 | She and the photographer she works with are caught up in an investigation that shakes her out of her complacency — and into the shadowy world of covert operations against the dictatorship . |
| 23 | After staring around and grunting a lot , Spunk reflexively saved a drunken girl from being roughed up in a sidewalk fracas outside a singles ' bar . |
| 24 | Apricot glaze is used for securing icing and marzipan to basic cakes , and is useful as a barrier to prevent cake crumbs from being mixed up with the icing . |
| 25 | My neck ached from being forced up by the arm of the settee . |
| 26 | Far from being wrapped up in the Tour and excited by it , she looked all the time as if she would sooner be anywhere else . |
| 27 | Gentleness keeps us from being caught up in the illusions of the world . |
| 28 | He had been interrogated at the Comando di Legione in Parma before being locked up in the Citadella to await removal to Germany . |
| 29 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 30 | Scuffles broke out everywhere as our officers came out of hiding and pounced on six members of the gang who bolted into the woods and sand dunes around the bay before being rounded up with the assistance of police dogs . |