Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 2 | Double-breasted to be fastened up to the collar , or left open , the reefer quickly ceased to be only navy blue and became a double-breasted tweed ‘ casual ’ coat , a direct ancestor o f the modern double-breasted suit . |
| 3 | He never intended that his shares should be given up for no payment . |
| 4 | The Black Man of Saxony , playing grisly tunes so that the children would follow him to his terrible mountain lair , there to be given up to the Man of the Mountains . |
| 5 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 6 | Once the soil has been dug , it should be broken up with a fork , hoe , back of a rake , by hand , with a hand fork , or whatever you find most convenient , until it reaches the stage at which raking it backwards and forwards , and then crossways , reduces it to the fine tilth described . |
| 7 | Once this point has been reached there will be a rapid reduction in the number of non-reproductive males , and the large units will be broken up into a number of smaller ones , in part through takeovers and in part through fission of units containing followers . |
| 8 | Heavy fatty deposits can be broken up by the use of caustic cleaners sometimes specially formulated and described as drain cleaners . |
| 9 | One acoustic theory is immediately exploded : that a whisper on stage could be heard up in the back row ( Greek guides conveniently fail to take the wooden superstructure into account ) . |
| 10 | I 'll be catching up on the progress of our women in management . |
| 11 | The operative principle should therefore be one of a ‘ retributive maximum , as advocated by Norval Morris ( 1974 : 75 ) : while an individual offender may be punished up to the level indicated by the tariff , there is no obligation to do so if other valid considerations indicate that a more lenient course will be more constructive or humane . |
| 12 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 13 | Fletcher also indicated that England 's batting line-up might be shaken up after the humiliation by India . |
| 14 | Anxious that his client might be mixed up with a terrorist organisation . |
| 15 | If the surfaces were cleaned by sand blasting , that concrete dust would be mixed up with the sand used in the cleaning ; but when the surfaces are cleaned with dry ice , the pellets sublime away into easily filtered gas . |
| 16 | Applications may , however , be considered up to the date when a course begins , provided that not all places have been filled . |
| 17 | It is advisable to apply as early as possible , and preferably before 31 January of the proposed year of entry to the University , though application may be considered up to the date when a course begins , subject to the availability of places . |
| 18 | However applications may be considered up to the date when a course begins , subject to the availability of places . |
| 19 | I can not see any reason why that process can not be speeded up within the system . |
| 20 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 21 | The visitor to an auction may be caught up in the excitement and drama of the event , but the climate of opinion in which it takes place has been created by scholars and critics as well as businessmen . |
| 22 | ‘ We do n't want to be caught up in the rush when it comes . ’ |
| 23 | It is so easy to be caught up in the whirl . |
| 24 | Every step is a chance to meet people , to give them the idea , the experience that can change their living and thinking ; to be caught up in an effort to bring a fundamental change to Rhodesia — and that means , of course , matching one 's own life to it . |
| 25 | Aunt Sarah would be curled up on the sofa , in guernsey and old jeans , having chased Robin and Jenny out so that she could phone in peace . |
| 26 | Matilda happened to be curled up in an arm-chair in the corner , totally absorbed in a book . |
| 27 | Due to the extensive television coverage practically every hole on the course , and certainly all those on the second nine , can be conjured up in the mind 's eye , even when the tournament is long over . |
| 28 | Time spent on this may be looked up as an investment in that if essential job elements are identified , then the people involved in the recruitment process will be less inclined to develop the criteria as they go along . |
| 29 | Companies tend to use a ‘ firewall ’ along their route into Internet so that individuals can not be looked up in the directory of users — a sort of ex directory . |
| 30 | The danger , of course , lies in the fact that the deferred interest payments will be rolled up into the capital debt . |