Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw yesterday' in Markstadt a shelter which has beds for 100 of these children ; 42 children had died in the last 24 hours , but these places had been filled up . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 3 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 4 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 5 | The stile is stopped up and , and res erm children particularly are clambering over the bridge in order to use the footpath , which actually does end at the stile , which has been stopped up , erm through the nature reserve . |
| 6 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 7 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 9 | The work went on until the last marcher had been patched up . |
| 10 | Now you 've been patched up , your hull 's been scraped , a lick of paint and you 're ready to get back into the great sea of life . |
| 11 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 12 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 13 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 14 | If new problems or concerns are introduced some existing ones are given up . |
| 15 | As beds are given up , part of the money saved is being reinvested in four Community Care Support Centres for elderly people . |
| 16 | Momentary pleasures are given up , but only because a more lasting pleasure is promised later . |
| 17 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 18 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 19 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 20 | Both options C1 and C2 , retain a line from March to Spalding , in East Anglia This line was closed last year and the track has been ripped up . |
| 21 | Bed after regular bed shows a dark , laminated lower portion which I identify as an algal mat type deposit that has been ripped up and incorporated , in a graded fashion , in " cleaner " , paler sediment from offshore . |
| 22 | Now the track has been ripped up , the station master 's house and station have been converted into homes , and the architecturally-unique waiting-room ( or workman 's shelter ) seems to have fallen down . |
| 23 | While I am tucked up by my warm fire being waited on hand and foot , you will be out in your cars touring the streets with nowhere to go , wishing in vain for a lovely girl to console you and end your loneliness . |
| 24 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 25 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 26 | When the permanent notes arrive the two sets are joined up and filed in the usual way . |
| 27 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 28 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 29 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 30 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |