Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The injured man 's canoe was rescued by a speedboat after being swept up the Maisemore channel of the river and was hauled undamaged up the 15 ft high bank . |
| 2 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 3 | They spent the rest of the morning checking over their equipment before being herded up a gangplank and on to the waiting troop carrier . |
| 4 | The only sport my old man was interested in was beating up the rest of the family . |
| 5 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
| 6 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 7 | The reader has to be led up the garden path . |
| 8 | No I asked her to start but that 's all , and I kept that in the meant to be setting up a place in the posh area but they got ta have |
| 9 | But , by now , he would have had to be moving up the ladder , getting experience of command . |
| 10 | Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars . |
| 11 | ‘ I did not feel guilty about having to be kicked up the arse . |
| 12 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 13 | I do n't quite know why , but anyhow if they do feel old at 75 , then they ought to be shaken up a bit . |
| 14 | This is followed by pushing the arms above the head , so that the cross breaks and the student appears to be holding up the ceiling . |
| 15 | seems to be making up a bit . |
| 16 | The noise thus created is thought to be passed up the animal 's windpipe and into the sinus cavities of the skull , where it resonates to produce the purring sound . |
| 17 | Playing the Little Sweep , his clothes were to be ripped off one by one by the Big Sweep and Assistant Sweep -played by the headmaster and French master — as they sang three verses , and then he was to be thrown up the chimney . |
| 18 | This evening seems to be going up the spout . |
| 19 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |
| 20 | Was n't it hard enough on that poor child to know no parents , to be totally disowned by her relations up in Westlands , to be brought up an orphan in the convent in second-hand clothes , and sent to a secretarial course when she had her heart set on going to university without being mown down by a car on her first week . |
| 21 | If this is not the case then the purchaser may face arguments from the vendor by way of defence relating to completely different matters ( eg a bad debt provision is in fact excessive as a defence to a claim relating to non-payment of PAYE ) and detailed accounts may need to be drawn up every time there is a breach of warranty ( ie in order to see if there is some surplus which compensates ) . |
| 22 | The wording referring to the specific location in the location description would by definition have to be drawn up the region , cos they would have intimate knowledge of the locality that er sorry and the costs would be drawn up by the region because they would know as I say intimately they would know that specific development |
| 23 | This one seems to be perking up a bit , . |
| 24 | The safest course of action seemed to be to shore up the bunker and make sure I did nothing to upset the fragile eco-system that was supporting me , for however much we wanted to disguise it , I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 25 | If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores . |