Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 2 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
| 4 | Investment analysts have come up with the following forecasts for earnings growth : |
| 5 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 6 | I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed . |
| 7 | This philosophy of helping elderly people return to or stay in their own or small-scale homes will be picked up by the new centres . |
| 8 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 9 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 10 | ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with . |
| 11 | Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention . |
| 12 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 13 | And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires , you silly boy . |
| 14 | Rather , the idea was to see people as simultaneously subject both to natural and instinctive drives while at the same time caught up in the various forms of culture and social relations which human societies construct in a more conscious way . |
| 15 | BRITONS caught up in the horrifying riots tearing the heart out of Los Angeles told yesterday of their terror . |
| 16 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 17 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 18 | A wide range of people throughout much of the country — from the local gentry , through to the professional and mercantile classes , down to the middling and lower sorts of town and countryside — were actively caught up in the partisan controversies of the time . |
| 19 | My work-rate was speeded up by the further drops of rain that fell on me . |
| 20 | Even the concrete floor had cracked with age and clusters of weeds had grown up through the uneven apertures . |
| 21 | There 's almost something too grown up about the Inspiral Carpets : like The Stranglers , they 're too professional , too accomplished , too ‘ manly ’ . |
| 22 | Uncertainty extends also to the question of Molla Yegan 's death date , about which a wide divergence of opinion has grown up amongst the various sources , who give dates ranging from 840/1436–7 to 878/1473–4 . |
| 23 | Reckoned up over the eleven months covered , this represented a take-home figure of £64 : 3s. : 5d. , but in what proportion this was distributed amongst them can only be guessed at . |
| 24 | The corporate plan is therefore built up along the same lines as the organisational hierarchy . |
| 25 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 26 | You can shoot the material in any order , the edited movie can be built up from the best parts of the recording , and the overall shape of the movie can be finally determined when the material to be retained is known . |
| 27 | The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral . |
| 28 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 29 | Children , having built up in the early stages of their lives an ‘ ego ideal ’ with whom they have had apparently satisfactory relationships , are for the rest of their lives attempting to transfer this ideal on to other people or organisations . |
| 30 | It , it 's really because as somebody gets older the risk gets very , very great , and it needs all the money that 's built up in the early years to sustain the risk , the charges for the risk later on , in the later years . |