Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 My family have lived in Anglesey for 500 years , mostly as parsons , and I am deeply tied up with the people and landscape .
32 Some fruit trees are still dug up from the nursery in autumn and sold with their roots bare .
33 Parts of the county are still sobering up from the unprecedented celebrations .
34 It might be argued that a tacit assumption of research which examines girls ' 'failure' in science is not only that girls are inadequate-not measuring up to the standard of boys — but also that maths , physics and chemistry are more difficult and more important than English , languages , history and biology .
35 Stalin therefore becomes the authentic Marxist , able to deal with specific historical circumstances , as against Trotsky who is regarded as having been hopelessly caught up with the a priori universalism of an abstract Marxism .
36 As waste dumps all over Europe are frantically dug up in the search , other interesting things have come to light .
37 As adjacent word positions are also looked up in the word look-up tree , they are checked for whether or not they are the appropriate words to complete the compound .
38 These slow waves pervade the head to the extent that they are also picked up by the EOG electrodes , just as K complexes are .
39 In such places , ditches , which have a critical job to do in carrying away flood-water , are often filled up to the top with loose soil , following a ‘ blow ’ .
40 The reactions produced are often summed up as the flight or fight response .
41 Monk seal bodies are periodically washed up on the Mediterranean cost and there are fears the virus will lead to their extinction .
42 They are solely geared up to the FFL scoring system .
43 People are now waking up to the fact that the natural world is our primary source and has got to be conserved if man is to continue .
44 Ex-Loop-ers Neil and drummer John originally formed the Traders as an offshoot-cum-hobby when Loop took an extended break from music , but are now wrapped up in the band full-time .
45 Many different groups are involved in the pollination of modern angiosperms and , in rain forest , this seems to be rather bound up with the level in the forest at which the flowers are presented .
46 to be laughingly bundled up to the template ,
47 Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery .
48 Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works .
49 Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works .
50 ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained .
51 The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery .
52 I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc .
53 Yeah , I 'll have it in a minute I 'm all glued up at the moment .
54 So I 'm not queuing up at the bakers .
55 Fitness was , as ever , a big problem and is a deficiency which will not be easily made up during the Championship .
56 When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first .
57 But I saw , I went into town yesterday , have n't been into town and I saw er , I 'm just going up past the job centre I had to go to council about me money and I thought well I suppose I ought to make an effort and look in the job centre cos I , I ai n't done because I 've been in catering all the while
58 Almost by definition , crises are periods when the normally routinized operations of the bureaucracy are insufficient or can not be relied on , when decisions have to be quickly pushed up through the chain of command , and where unusually large and direct role in controlling policy implementation has to be taken by political leaders .
59 ‘ It 's certainly wiser to be more covered up in the sun , ’ she says .
60 The last thing I want after the programme is to be still caught up in the atmosphere of the studio .
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