Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , I 'm fed up I want to go to Malita And then we get , they 'll call in and say you have n't come up there for a week ! |
| 2 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 3 | Le Bon seemed to have in mind here a church congregation , as in the remarks about people being lifted up ethically in a crowd . |
| 4 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 5 | On the , on the down side , some of us felt that the , the actual heading could have been , might get picked up verbatim by a news editor and used almost in that form . |
| 6 | You were rolled up tight as a mummy in canvas , then water was poured on it . |
| 7 | On the whole , she thought as she grilled her lamb chop , tossed the broad beans from cullender to plate and regarded the ginger-haired Tobias who had curled up companionably on a copy of the parish magazine in the centre of the kitchen table , it 's an icon of paradise : a garden I did not make , a house I 'm only partly responsible for and , above all , no human contacts unless I seek them out . |
| 8 | Later , more complex constructions were built up further with a drum upon the pendentives , pierced by windows in the sides to light the building beneath , and the dome surmounted this drum ( ‘ F' ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Great Mates ’ The Blockheads ( they of Ian Dury And … ) once turned up unexpectedly at a Clash recording session dressed as policemen , causing Mick Jones to flush all his illicit substances down the toilet and the rest of the band to flee . |
| 10 | They 're all messed up together in a bowl . ’ |
| 11 | They got the lot … except they sound like Edwyn Collins crooning along to MBV with his face pushed up hard against a plate glass window . |
| 12 | Only a small fraction would elude this category if we accept that , contrary to much contemporary opinion , paupers were largely made up not of a delinquent or a wilfully dependent population but of those who could not work either through incapacity or age , or who could not , in the vagaries of the labour market , find work . |
| 13 | As the text of the gospels was dissected , there came indeed to appear layers or strata ; some bits looked earlier than others ; the documents were made up out of a weaving of stories and sayings circulating in the earliest Church and then put together by a single hand or more than one hand . |
| 14 | And so , with her emotions wrapped up safely in a package of anger , Lisa proceeded to face the coming fortnight . |
| 15 | She was propped up now against a heap of pillows . |
| 16 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 17 | Grandma used to say they were like chalk and cheese , and that they should have been shaken up together in a bag to get more of a mixture . |
| 18 | ‘ Trussed up tight as a smack-smuggler 's arse ! ’ he muttered . |
| 19 | But the expansion was pulled up sharply by a balance of payments crisis . |
| 20 | A semantic relation may be set up either within a sentence or between sentences with the consequence that , when it crosses a sentence boundary , it has the effect of making the two sentences cohere with one another ( Halliday and Hasan 1976 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's set up there like a part of the Rameses II exhibition , ’ came the answer . |
| 22 | Mr Matthew Kelly , Mr Jeremy Beadle 's erstwhile co-presenter on the televisual feast Game For A Laugh , has apparently ‘ set up home with a drag queen ’ named ‘ Dave ’ . |
| 23 | One such group is the Haitian Information Bureau , which was set up recently as a news and information service designed to provide an accurate picture of the current situation in Haiti . |
| 24 | brought up short by a wheelbarrow . |
| 25 | Anyone who comes to Rolle 's lyrics looking for the subtle music of variety of stress within a regular syllabic pattern will be brought up short by an unpredictability of both syllabic and stress systems which lurch uneasily from one banal sing-song pattern to another . |
| 26 | Cordons , already tight around scores of Ulster towns and cities , were stepped up overnight in a bid to prevent any headline grabbing bombing . |
| 27 | I do n't they 're going to grow that tall , somehow but gone up straight as a dye have n't they ? |
| 28 | It was voted upon as a whole on 16 October , and taken up again after a week 's break on 25–27 October . |
| 29 | It may be taken up directly by a department ; or by a party prior to going into government ; or by a pressure group , whether an ad hoc group , a single interest group or other . |
| 30 | The far greater challenges — transforming union organisation and government in ways that involve members in actively making their own decisions and implementing them — have been taken up only by a minority of unions , such as NUPE , the TGWU , the Society of Civil and Public Servants and arguably — the Electricians and the Engineers . |