Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 2 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 3 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 4 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 5 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 , |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm just fed up with this ankle and … and I should n't be here . ’ |
| 11 | as I say I 'm just fed up with this lot , what is the outlook on er income tax ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is not enough to change to a new paragraph at intervals just because you know that a block of text is always broken up in this way . |
| 14 | He seemed more caught up with this coincidence than interested in the school he had come to see , Sara decided . |
| 15 | You 've already lost me one race because you 're still hung up on that business at Ascot . |
| 16 | Very often the fossil bones may be broken in place by slight earth movements but with the pieces of bone still lined up with each other , only to fall apart during later transport or during excavation . |
| 17 | The glance of astonishment Feargal gave her should have made her back off , but she was so thoroughly fed up with this family , with being the meat in the sandwich of everyone 's feud , that she ignored him . |
| 18 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
| 19 | The Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on Intel Corp iAPX-86-based machines ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 20 | Meantime the Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on iAPX-86-based machines ( CI No 2,133 ) . |
| 21 | The banks are often built up in this manner above the level of the surrounding marsh , rather like the levees of a meandering river being built up above the level of the floodplain . |
| 22 | The career of artists as diverse as Queen and Public Enemy would have been very different if Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards had n't come up with this landmark tune . |
| 23 | You had n't turned up for that date . |
| 24 | The pregnant sentence ‘ The economy of Revelation is realized by deeds and words , which are intrinsically bound up with each other ’ ( DV 2 ) challenges two basic ‘ conservative ’ positions : the fear of allowing historical development in our understanding of divine truth , and the theory of separate sources of revelation . |
| 25 | In chyluria Sudan three is avidly taken up by all body fat and turns the urine pink . |
| 26 | Although curtains are sometimes made up in this fabric it is not always satisfactory as it can be rather stiff . |
| 27 | The land is then tied up for another generation . |
| 28 | I was then brought up to this room , in which , at that point of the day , the sun was lighting up the floral patterns of the wallpaper quite agreeably . |
| 29 | Moz 's dinner could then be brought into the yard without dumping it over the fence ; and the horse was then led up to this food , caressed a few times , and released while he was still distracted by eating the first few mouthfuls . |
| 30 | Not only is there dispute about the long-term effects of new technology on skill level , but there is also , closely bound up with this issue , the question of how jobs of the future will be organised . |