Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 2 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 3 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 4 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 5 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Martha 's school dress and books , her one skirt , two blouses and handful of frayed underwear were swiftly parcelled up in the coarse paper Nana used in the shop . |
| 8 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 9 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 10 | Another employer , in the 1890s , rationalized women 's lower pay as follows : " the difference between the rate paid to women and that paid to men is almost entirely swallowed up by the additional work which the men require to do for the women , viz. making up , correcting , carrying about formes between the stones and the proof presses , etc . " , |
| 11 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 12 | The reconversion of one portion of the value of the product into capital and the passing of another portion into the individual consumption of the capitalist as well as the working class form a movement within the value of the product itself in which the result of the aggregate capital finds expression ; and this movement is not only a replacement of value , but also a replacement in material and is therefore as much bound up with the relative proportions of the value-components of the total social product as with their use-value , their material shape . |
| 13 | It was also a source of fees for more distant associates and although such relationships were more vulnerable to dynastic change , because less bound up with the territorial dominance of the lord of Middleham , some did nevertheless survive the transfer of power in 1471 . |
| 14 | It was also a source of fees for more distant associates and although such relationships were more vulnerable to dynastic change , because less bound up with the territorial dominance of the lord of Middleham , some did nevertheless survive the transfer of power in 1471 . |
| 15 | It was all tied up with the rigid censorship restrictions of the 1940s . |
| 16 | The Governors ' commitment to the new scientific revolution is perhaps summed up in the concluding paragraph of the Minutes : |
| 17 | As well as support from his bosses , the players are clearly and naturally lined up behind the beleaguered manager . |
| 18 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 19 | It was then , when she thought about it , that she decided that she was just a little fed up with the bossy brute . |
| 20 | It would seem that the ordered feudal society , insofar as it ever existed , was already broken up by the late thirteenth century and that the small Wealden peasant , who will recur frequently later , was already a common phenomenon . |
| 21 | Even then , major subscribers like the US and the USSR had not come up with the necessary money . |
| 22 | ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with . |
| 23 | Clearly Balliol had not caught up with the decimated decoy party . |
| 24 | He was ‘ more largely mixed up with the principal people and events of his time than any other man ’ ( Charles Greville , Greville Memoirs , 1874–8 ) . |
| 25 | I have the feeling that if oil supplies were somehow caught up in the Yugoslavian position , an armed intervention force would already be in that country . |
| 26 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 27 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 28 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 29 | In addition , a prominent counter-melody is introduced ( itself largely made up of the small cell of our example ) . |
| 30 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |