Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Khomeini asserted that many of the reforms were " perhaps drawn up by the spies of the Jews and the Zionists …
2 On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities .
3 Demonstrations were also broken up by the police in Annaba , Constantine , Bordj Bou-Arreridj and Chlef .
4 ( He was later picked up by the Italians and made a prisoner . )
5 This implication was later firmed up by the Sages of the Second Commonwealth to become a fully-fledged rabbinic declaration of exemption embracing nearly all of the positive commandments whose fulfilment depended upon a specific time of the day or year — an exemption which rapidly came to be viewed in terms of actual exclusion ( Kidd .
6 This is often picked up by the programmers , who then make the system more secure . ’
7 Some were immediately picked up by the demons , whilst others managed again and again to risk their lives before falling to the persistent attacks of the creatures from hell .
8 Their position was well summed up by the Carers National Association , which has stated that the current rules could have ’ disastrous consequences ’ for the family and friends of the claimant who may have moved into the home to take on the caring responsibilities .
9 A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand .
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