Example sentences of "[vb past] up by the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house is seized by the demolition contractors , its park invaded and churned up by the tractors and trailers of the timber merchant . |
| 2 | And all the time the snow fell ; not once but many times , scooped up by the wind and hurled back in huge opaque whirlpools that obliterated even the pencil lines . |
| 3 | His Dad pulled up by the fence and wound his window down . |
| 4 | Subtract that figure from the score notched up by the weeds and we shall then be in a position to predict the number of traits that an average crop plant would have to acquire in order to become weedy . |
| 5 | The fight put up by the Health and Safety Commission to get more money saw niggardly extra funding at the end of the last year . |
| 6 | On that terrain , the patrol constable gradually learnt the tricks of the trade — the verbal tricks to diffuse confrontations , and when to use the ultimate omnibus body of legal weapons , backed up by the stick and the fist . |
| 7 | These can be quickly and effectively dealt with using electronic fly killers , or inspect screens — thus preventing initial entry , backed up by the detection and elimination of their breeding sites . |
| 8 | Trent imagined Golden Girl picked up by the surf and flung tumbling and splintering into fragments . |