Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 2 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 3 | One of them died soon afterwards ; and the other one — I saw it myself-was so bad and its head so swollen up with the stings that it had to be supported in its stable by a kind of sling fixed to the roof . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 5 | Consumers liked being able to lift a bottle to their lips , and were not so hung up about the problems of disposing of bottles . |
| 6 | Khomeini asserted that many of the reforms were " perhaps drawn up by the spies of the Jews and the Zionists … |
| 7 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 8 | It 's actually mostly made up of the skeletons of billions of tiny sea creatures . |
| 9 | He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury . |
| 10 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 11 | I asked several times but eventually was just caught up in the crowds . ’ |
| 12 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 13 | During the Cultural Revolution , Mao had attempted to eliminate this ‘ new elite ’ , largely made up of the children of urban intellectuals and well-placed party officials . |
| 14 | In a feverish rush , an agreement was finally drawn up in the corridors outside the court room , under which Virgin were entitled to one more album of Sting 's songs ( Synchronicity ) and also retained the ‘ exploitation ’ rights on existing material for a further eight to ten years . |
| 15 | Some of those problems had already shown up on the print-outs , let alone from the drivers . |
| 16 | A shepherd with his stick , solitary , was already wrapped up to the eyes in his striped poncho , the only true centre of his eccentric flock . |
| 17 | The groups of children were soon swallowed up among the trees , and the sounds of the forest overlaid their fading voices and laughter , the soughing of the wind in the canopy of branches above their heads , the calls of the birds and the rustling and murmuring in the undergrowth . |
| 18 | She would go no further , but just pulled up under the trees , shivering and sweating and blowing . |
| 19 | Yet any comparison of British and foreign economic performance over the period since 1945 is soon brought up against the effects of different institutional forms . |
| 20 | Just shoved up on the shelves with no order or reason . |
| 21 | But we have come full circle : by sliding from discussion of women as wives to a discussion of women as mothers and carers , we are once more caught up in the dilemmas about benefits for children outlined in the previous section . |
| 22 | Together they walked across the carpet ; a splendid Second Empire Aubusson which was always rolled up for the parties . |
| 23 | The strategy which controls the frequency , duration and destination is usually set up on a systems availability base rather than being controlled by the quantity of data to be transferred and its " design delay " costs . |
| 24 | It is only too obvious that this balance between action and personal life was intimately bound up with the conditions of clandestine action and could not survive it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Demonstrations were also broken up by the police in Annaba , Constantine , Bordj Bou-Arreridj and Chlef . |
| 27 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 28 | ( He was later picked up by the Italians and made a prisoner . ) |
| 29 | A number of people from the North-East were also caught up in the riots . |
| 30 | He and Vivienne were also probably fed up with the teds ' meathead mentality . |