Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] up [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have a divorce law which allows marriages to be broken up after less time than the run of an average HP agreement , ’ Mr Field said . |
| 2 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 3 | What monstrous vanity makes them conclude the memory wants to be clogged up with this sort of rubbish ? |
| 4 | Again , because of the nature of the allegations and counter-allegations , it seems probable that the hearing would be lengthy and bitter , and in view of their ages it seems to me impossible that the children would not know all about the hearing and the issues raised by it and be caught up in that bitterness . |
| 5 | An RS232 interface is provided so that output can be picked up by another device such as a BBC micro with a disc drive . |
| 6 | A resource box can be built up for each history unit . |
| 7 | By the use of one-way valves , air pressure can be built up in each chamber in turn by moving the piston back and forth . |
| 8 | Political power can be built up in this way , with the result that many Latin American leaders owe their position to a network of clientelist relationships . |
| 9 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |
| 10 | Was this erm differences in quality to be made up by more land ? |
| 11 | Erm oh well maybe yours can be saved up for another time ? |
| 12 | ‘ So you think I 'd prefer to be walled up in that mausoleum — that grave of a house . ’ |
| 13 | They try and tighten it up even more , almost in a subconscious way to control a disaster , and we know that things like chaos and disaster they ca n't be controlled , they ca n't be wrapped up in that way . |
| 14 | Inside the objects and figures the planes begin to be opened up into each other more fully and are less clearly differentiated than hitherto . |
| 15 | for all we know he might be locked up in that house against his will — ‘ |
| 16 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 17 | The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit . |
| 18 | Two of the main instructions found in the autoexec.bat are PROMPT , and PATH , in which the DOS directory should be included to enable DOS commands to be called up from any location . |
| 19 | It is reported that Akbar , who was an emperor in India from 1542 to 1602 , ordered that a group of children be brought up without any instruction in language , to test the belief that they would eventually speak Hebrew , the language of God . |
| 20 | But he wishes the children , both of whom were born in Australia , to be brought up in that country where he will be content with access to them . |
| 21 | It was not unknown for foreigners to be brought up in this way , and trained for responsible posts in the army , priesthood or civil service . |
| 22 | I used to be worried that I would die and Charmian would be brought up by another woman … |
| 23 | Is it not time for an initiative to make local authorities hand over their property to housing associations , and could regional ombudsman be set up for that purpose ? |
| 24 | This is illustrated in the following drill using Spanish : This type of drill would have to be set up for each person , number , tense and verb class , and be thoroughly drilled in order to gain automatic control of the association of pronoun and verb ending . |
| 25 | A register of licensed auditors is to be set up for each member state . |
| 26 | Separate drills need to be set up for each noun class to learn its associated affixes . |
| 27 | Neighbourhood houses could soon be set up on many housing estates in Darlington , Coun Bill Dixon said . |
| 28 | Special post boxes will be set up at each walk to receive the postcards . |
| 29 | An additional , optional logical name may be set up by each user if he or she wishes to store cached information from one LIFESPAN logon session to another . |
| 30 | Age , because you might be considering well , er , if something happens dramatically , at say fifty , fifty two , or something like that , you might just go and retire , so you would be set up in that respect . |