Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eye-witnesses told how eight police vans and three patrol cars swept up to a house in the street , flooding the area with police officers . |
| 2 | And ee , all the kids ended up with a prize did n't they ? |
| 3 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 4 | There is a gem in the Heraklion Museum showing two rampant lions with their forepaws perched up on an altar : at the centre , in place of a pillar or some other representation of the deity , is an unmistakable rayed sun which , as we have already seen , is one of the manifestations of Poteidan ( Figure 44 ) . |
| 5 | And did he have their little scarves sewn up into a patchwork quilt ? |
| 6 | Is it like the sidings built up like a coach ? |
| 7 | Although in every case the judge must balance the commercial or property rights of the plaintiff in controlling the information against the value of the defendant 's right of free speech , for many judges brought up in a world which accords pre-eminent value to rights of property , this may seem like balancing hard cash against hot air . |
| 8 | Tre ( Cuba Gooding Jr ) , Dough Boy ( Ice Cube ) and Ricky ( Morris Chestnut ) , are three young blacks brought up in an area where violence prevails . |
| 9 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 10 | LIFESPAN will report discrepancies between this reference and the versions called up by a package during QA checking . |
| 11 | Thus the animal locates itself in space by use of environmental reference points ( this is of course more or less what a psychologically untutored lay person might have guessed would happen , but it was not what psychologists brought up on a diet of Skinner would have theorized ) . |
| 12 | The artists themselves sometimes had a Jekyll-and-Hyde career , the prime example being the Australian bass-baritone Peter Dawson , who for many years dressed up as a Scotsman and hijacked Sir Harry Lauder 's songs , touring Scottish music-halls under the name Hector Grant . |
| 13 | They play the standard all-American folk-rock-country fusion , with the guitars dressed up with a dash of accordion , harmonica and brass , and they write good , solid songs that are tuneful , stirring , but never wildly original . |
| 14 | up in firkins in seven gallon firkins hoisted up by a winch . |
| 15 | I think that 's what we 're aiming to do now , get things set up as a standard er , operating erm , levels , having done that then we begin |
| 16 | Jane Henson turned into Miss THUGGY when she spotted Wilkins and Wontkins , two Muppet-style characters caught up in a copyright row , at a toy trade fair in the New York Hilton . |
| 17 | A number of draft agreements drawn up at a meeting of the ACC Ministerial Council , held in Baghdad on Jan. 16-17 , were ratified including accords covering co-operation in industry , oil and gas , health , air transport and tourism . |
| 18 | Children brought up on a diet of TV and video are no longer as tractable and easy to control , as they once used to be , even in the younger classes of the junior school . |
| 19 | Wages edged up to an average of £19.58 , and the bank rate came down to 6 per cent , but mortgages went up from 6 to 6&1/4% . |
| 20 | A bit of a burden , but she treasured it all , he wealthy possessions screwed up in a ball . |
| 21 | There was no local version of the Rectitudines Singularum Personarum ( Rights of Individuals ) , the eleventh-century code of legal and rural practices drawn up as a guide for the country as a whole . |
| 22 | We paraded the following night as it was getting dark , the parade ground lit up by flaming torches with four tanks lined up as a backdrop to our ceremony . |