Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 2 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 3 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 4 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 5 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 6 | In Britain , it is almost entirely made up of upper-middle class , late-middle aged , white men . |
| 7 | In fact atoms are almost entirely made up of free space . |
| 8 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 9 | I was too defiant to return to such an art school , so cramped , so bunged up with petty authority . |
| 10 | Playing Richard is so bound up with physical attitude , and I think that as actors we are not well enough equipped to meet that kind of physical thinking in that kind of role . |
| 11 | Any complaints from tenants will be swiftly followed up within one working day where possible . |
| 12 | Instead of subsiding now that he was no longer touching her , the disturbance he had caused deepened as she looked at him and understood that the warning was a personal one , merely dressed up as professional advice . |
| 13 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
| 14 | His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ . |
| 15 | In other cases the particular translation of a sign may fail to show similarity : the Danish and British signs for WOMAN are different , but the British sign LADY resembles the Danish sign WOMAN ; such information is not picked up by this method of data collection . |
| 16 | To summarize the total award is thus made up in this way there are agreed items as shown on the er schedule of the plaintiff 's submissions which come to three hundred and fifty two thousand , five hundred and ninety six pounds , |
| 17 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 18 | The first are the poorer urban dwellers — these are largely made up of junior office staff , workers in the retail and hotel sectors , petty retailers and petty commodity producers and the unemployed , old and sick . |
| 19 | It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way . |
| 20 | I 'm just fed up with this ankle and … and I should n't be here . ’ |
| 21 | as I say I 'm just fed up with this lot , what is the outlook on er income tax ? |
| 22 | indeed , the mood of the Conservative Party Conference twenty years ago was aptly summed up by one speaker who thought : ‘ Over the past 25 years we in this country , through misguided sentiment , have cast aside the word ‘ discipline ’ ’ , and now we are suffering from it . ’ |
| 23 | The true aim of the martial arts is to avoid conflict ; it is best summed up in one commentator 's description of aikido as ‘ the honourable art of getting the hell out of the way ’ . |
| 24 | The Governor 's position is shrewdly summed up by one observer : ‘ A deal with Nkrumah and the CPP would give the British a breathing space , perhaps a long one . ’ |
| 25 | But it 's just gone up to two pound twenty . |
| 26 | I 'm not stocked up with strong drink yet , I 'm afraid . |
| 27 | The caresses stimulate the extremities of the sensory nerve fibres in the skin , already tuned up to maximum sensitivity , and your seat glands secrete pheromones ( the hormones that emit your personal scent and induce sensations such as fear , aggression or sexual arousal ) . |
| 28 | But they were soon rounded up at nearby Maidenhead railway station . |
| 29 | The Middlesex slow left-armer began this winter 's campaign as one of the world 's top ranked spinners , but he has not lived up to that reputation . |
| 30 | However , one must remember that the number of plants reputed to relieve one condition or another is enormous , and that most of them have not stood up to critical investigation . |