Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students of our naval past may treasure those small books bound in wood salvaged from the Mary Rose , which heeled over and sank off Portsmouth in 1545 ; or brought up from the Royal George which , a tarnished monument to the neglect of the Admiralty , went down at Spithead in 1772 with nearly a thousand souls . |
| 2 | The expectation was that the losses sustained by the low cover price would be more than made up by the larger circulation and by advertising . |
| 3 | What is interesting to note about both the theory of public choice and Chicago School economic analysis of law is that their analyses , although wrapped up in the analytical apparatus of modern economics , reach more or less identical conclusions to Hayek . |
| 4 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 5 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 6 | ‘ If you are feeling bored and fed up with the daily routine , give the WI a try . |
| 7 | I am preparing a big adhortatio for everyone who has not yet been utterly suffocated and swallowed up by the present age . " |
| 8 | However outré , each item emerges looking chewed over and softened up by the editorial enzymes . |
| 9 | ( The asses probably owe something to Koenig 's native Bavaria , where uxorious cows are garlanded and brought up to the Alpine pastures each summer . ) |
| 10 | Clayton was adopted by his aunt and uncle and brought up in the working class brewery town of Tadcaster , North Yorkshire . |
| 11 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 12 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |
| 13 | The people were not necessarily born and brought up in the same neighbourhood ; many are upwardly mobile ( unlike the inner-city people ) . |
| 14 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 15 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 16 | Cray Research Inc says it could sell 30 to 40 massively parallel systems in 1994 ‘ if we do things correctly ’ : Derek Robb , director of sales , told Reuter that Cray 's massively parallel systems cost several million dollars at the low end , and run up to the multi-millions ; they link together hundreds or thousands of Alpha RISC processors and in 1994 , Robb said , he ‘ could see ’ its parallel revenues reaching 25% of the Cray total ; at the very top end , customers ' budgets are now topping out at about $50m to $60m , he said , meaning the most processors it would likely offer on its T3D system is 2,048 . |
| 17 | Decked in tasselled yellow howdah cloths and ridden by straw-hatted Annamese mahouts perched straddle-legged behind their ears , a dozen elephants lumbered slowly across the flagstones and lined up before the open doors . |
| 18 | Only a flicker from the television , reflected in the gloss of his eye and thrown up against the blank darkness , lent him the illusion of a lustre passing through her body , opaline . |
| 19 | Martigues will soon be all but swallowed up in the new harbour constructions planned to stretch west from Marseille . |
| 20 | It is not always possible to give adequate thought to the future when caught up in the day-to-day running of an operation , but if you live the business , as Sir Hector unashamedly does , there are always less hectic times to mull over major issues . |
| 21 | Even when made up with the finest cosmetics money could buy it would never be beautiful , but still … not bad for an ugly duckling , Sally thought , smiling wryly . |
| 22 | Planning control as set up by the 1947 Act was not therefore revolutionary but evolutionary , building on aspects of the Town and Country Planning Acts of 1932 and 1944 which extended the requirement for planning permission to the whole of the country , albeit ineffectively . |