Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up by [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MICROBETTER and Airflow Communications have been compulsorily wound up by court order under the Insolvency Act at the request of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 2 | Earlier in the debate , I was rightly pulled up by Madam Deputy Speaker because I left the Chamber after moving the amendment . |
| 3 | Wright was accused of feigning injury , despite his claims he was definitely hit , which was apparently backed up by video evidence . |
| 4 | However , it 's hardly fair to single out these strand because writer Eszterhas , gleefully backed up by director Verhoeven , links all forms of sexual activity to violence and death , with the heterosexual male hero spiralling out of control , led by his dick into drug abuse and manslaughter , and sweaty , beautifully-lit straight sex scenes segueing into bloody carnage . |
| 5 | COSE , it turns out , is part of a much wider recipe that was originally cooked up by Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , prime movers in the effort to meet the threat to Unix — and OS/2 for that matter — posed by Microsoft Corp 's forthcoming Windows NT operating system , and probably two of the firms with potentially the most to lose . |
| 6 | COSE , it has emerged , is part of a much wider recipe that was originally cooked up by Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , prime movers in the effort to meet the threat of Microsoft Corp Windows NT , and probably two of the firms with potentially the most to lose . |