Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Khomeini asserted that many of the reforms were " perhaps drawn up by the spies of the Jews and the Zionists … |
| 2 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 3 | What if the employers ' job offers are not taken up by the students ? |
| 4 | The two-fold test was not backed up by the authorities . |
| 5 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 6 | Demonstrations were also broken up by the police in Annaba , Constantine , Bordj Bou-Arreridj and Chlef . |
| 7 | ( He was later picked up by the Italians and made a prisoner . ) |
| 8 | This implication was later firmed up by the Sages of the Second Commonwealth to become a fully-fledged rabbinic declaration of exemption embracing nearly all of the positive commandments whose fulfilment depended upon a specific time of the day or year — an exemption which rapidly came to be viewed in terms of actual exclusion ( Kidd . |
| 9 | This is often picked up by the programmers , who then make the system more secure . ’ |
| 10 | Some were immediately picked up by the demons , whilst others managed again and again to risk their lives before falling to the persistent attacks of the creatures from hell . |
| 11 | Their position was well summed up by the Carers National Association , which has stated that the current rules could have ’ disastrous consequences ’ for the family and friends of the claimant who may have moved into the home to take on the caring responsibilities . |
| 12 | 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 . |