Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is not hard to see how they may become bound up in the sexuality of the growing child .
2 Whether Parisian or Reims produced the great mounds of town refuse which one can see piled up on the roadside are a dusty grey colour interspersed with flecks of pale blue ; the stench they give out , far outweighing that of the spent piles of marc , can not be missed .
3 In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements .
4 ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’
5 He was faced with one setback after another , as we shall see , and most people would have given up along the way .
6 At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way .
7 And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale .
8 They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below .
9 They would not have come up with the rest of the cash for at least another year .
10 It 's late , I know , but Alan Fine might have come up with the answer .
11 Some may even have come up from the West Highland Way which runs below Am Bodach in a secluded glen parallel to Loch Leven .
12 Fatty : We could have turned up to the disco in these !
13 You must have shot up from the age of fourteen or so . ’
14 If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner .
15 Today we should have met up with the rest of the tribe but we are n't as fit as we might be .
16 I wondered briefly what a British nursing sister would have said , but the act of motherly comfort may well have made up for the lack of quiet during the day .
17 Steve would have read her note , waited for her to phone and say she had arrived safely and when she had n't he would have driven up to the north of the island to find her .
18 On the other hand , the new kind of assignment resembles the equitable assignment in being subject to equities , i.e. to claims or defences which the debtor or other person might have set up against the assignor .
19 ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’
20 Surely Ashenden would have gone up to the Pay-Out desk immediately , if he 'd been there especially since that was the only time he was going to be in the betting-shop .
21 So claiming that had this relationship continued Hilary would probably have ended up as the wife of a petrol pump attender rather than the wife of the President of the United States .
22 Julia flinched as she heard that and wondered how she herself would have stood up to the kind of life Raffaella was describing .
23 Only a bully could have stood up to the bullying party bureaucracy ; Mr Yeltsin has taken them on at their own game and beaten them .
24 ‘ Once one has reached forty , one should have faced up to the fact of one 's own death , ’ Richard says .
25 Er with this instruction , it will get picked up on the quality
26 The swivel will turn with the bird 's movements , so that it does n't get caught up in the leash .
27 ‘ We wholeheartedly support pedestrianisation but I am concerned that our buses could get bottled up on the ringroad , ’ he said .
28 The only reason I did n't get rounded up before the game and incarcerated in a Marine barracks was cos I was in a pub in the Hague downing Guinness and cheering on Ireland ( another thankless task ) .
29 Other critics who could not get worked up about the play also admired the acting .
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