Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These go on every day in a Home — they wo n't be planned beforehand or written up on a board , they are the little things of everyday life : |
| 2 | If a man believes in a different god , or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god , blind faith can decree that he should die — on the cross , at the stake , skewered on a Crusader 's sword , shot in a Beirut street , or blown up in a bar in Belfast . |
| 3 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |
| 4 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 5 | Suddenly then though her attention was taken by a red squirrel which darted from nowhere and , effortlessly it seemed , bounced over the grass and then , as if jerked up on a string , shot up a tree . |
| 6 | So er a a micro electrode was er fabricated and then put inside a cell and connected up with an amplifier . |
| 7 | Last night started out with spilt acid and built up to a pellmell slide down stairs , across motorways , into a baby shop , on out-of-control roller-skates . |
| 8 | Her hair was dyed grey and drawn up in a bun , with two needles crossed through it . |
| 9 | Mr Puri was wheeled out and trussed up on a chair near the shrine . |
| 10 | Within minutes one was torn from reading a book to being gagged and trussed up in a sack , carried down stairs by running men , waiting for the bag to slip or rip and one 's head or neck to smash against the hard stone steps . |
| 11 | He was mercilessly tortured , blindfolded and trussed up in a cupboard for four months , but he refused to break . |
| 12 | The 44-year-old director was born and brought up on a ranch in California , before attending military school and a spell in the Marines . |
| 13 | The Clifford family owned the estate for almost 200 years from 1469 , and there is a legend that Henry Clifford was sent into hiding by his mother to Londesborough and brought up as a shepherd . |
| 14 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 15 | Although from Canadian stock , I was born and brought up in a suburb of New York City . |
| 16 | ‘ Her mother was found abandoned as a baby , and brought up in an orphanage just outside Mestre ; her father was a British serviceman . |
| 17 | They encourage the children to imagine what it 's like to be a character in the play — one of two twins who are separated in a shipwreck and thrown up on a beach on a strange island . |
| 18 | SHOT AT during an armed hold-up , THREATENED by a violent drug gang and BEATEN UP at a party in posh Beverly Hills . |
| 19 | Obsidian is erupted quietly as lava , forming thick , sluggish flows , while pumice is blasted out rapidly and blown up into a consistency something like expanded polystyrene , with a delicate cellular structure that results from the expansion of large volumes of gas within the magma . |
| 20 | A collegial model looked both more scriptural and more ecumenical — as well as being more suited to a post-monarchical world — even if bolstered up by a not-too-sound and rather fundamentalist interpretation of a selection of New Testament and patristic texts . |
| 21 | So there he was , caught in a trap of his own making — being nice to a woman he did n't like , and mean to one he did , and as mixed up as a schoolboy in short trousers . |
| 22 | He was as psyched up as a footballer about to step out on to the field on Super Bowl Sunday — but he would be sustaining this level of feverish anticipation all winter . |
| 23 | Similarly a Yorkshire millworker describes himself as brought up by a grandfather ‘ who cared for me as perhaps few grandchildren are cared for ; ’ when the old man died during his teens , ‘ by this death I lost a friend . ’ |
| 24 | But he showed much improved form when stepped up to a mile and three quarters , and is definitely worth opposing over this trip at such a short price . |