Example sentences of "[vb pp] up by a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 2 | Having approved the new constitution , which had been drawn up by a nine-member Constitutional Recommendation Committee , the King turned the document over to the Council of Ministers , which had been invested with legislative powers in mid-May [ see p. 37453 ] . |
| 3 | Five days of negotiations at Estoril , Portugal , ended on Nov. 20 with the Angolan government and United States-backed UNITA guerrillas having agreed on 80 per cent of a ceasefire document drawn up by a Portuguese mediating team , according to the Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation , José Manuel Durao Barroso . |
| 4 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 5 | Not that his son condemns him for this , blaming instead the way Olivier Snr was brought up by a cold domineering father , a priest who put church before family , and his own dedication to fulfilling his professional promise . |
| 6 | BOB MARLEY 's posthumous Top Five hit , ‘ Iron Lion Zion ’ , will be followed up by a new single next week . |
| 7 | According to K.M. Briggs , hobyahs were ‘ terrified of dogs , and with good reason , for they were finally all eaten up by a large black dog ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 8 | One wall was taken up by a great open fireplace , more suggestive of a baronial hall than a Georgian living-room . |
| 9 | According to Seekings , the doors had been removed and part of the interior was taken up by a huge extra fuel tank . |
| 10 | I 'm being beaten up by a jumbled-up rainbow-coloured ME . |
| 11 | Hemisphere imbalance may seem to explain schizophrenic symptoms , but like a good deal of the information on the development of schizophrenia , it has not yet been backed up by a convincing aetiological model . |
| 12 | Its work will be backed up by a new ministerial committee . |
| 13 | In the north-east of England , a joint proposal by International Technology Europe and Northumbrian Water for two plants designed to burn sewage sludge and organic chemicals is currently being held up by a lengthy public enquiry , with local people in strong opposition . |
| 14 | Normally a modest stream , it occasionally becomes a torrent after a downpour and , when held up by a high tide-can give rise to flooding in the lower part of the town as , spectacularly , in 1914 and 1935 . |