Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Richmond 's complaint is based on what they say was shown up by the video . |
2 | One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 . |
3 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
4 | A check-list that would make a modern bird-watcher salivate was served up on the Elizabethan menu : ‘ the-food of heroes , fit for the palates of the great ’ , as Camden describes pewits , godwits , knot , and dotterel . |
5 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
6 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
7 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
8 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
9 | ‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater . |
10 | ‘ I 've been stitched up by the Richardson gang ’ |
11 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
12 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
13 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |
14 | What I really love about these guitars — the 12-strings especially — is that they 've been set up with the lowest , most buzz-free actions imaginable . |
15 | Yes and then they 've were forked up in the carts , what the bogeys are nowadays , and then they would have made stacks and stack yet . |
16 | Daily maintenance consists merely of giving the walls and floor of the pond a once-over with a soft-bristled broom , to keep down blanketweed : suspended matter is then whisked away to both filters , and what they miss is picked up by the skimmer . |
17 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
18 | The chemical industry 's efforts to secure insurance have been stepped up following the publication of a number of European directives suggesting a move towards much wider compulsory compensation for environmental damage . |
19 | ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance . |
20 | ( The PPP figures have been scaled up from the World Bank 's 1990 figures . ) |
21 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
22 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
23 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |
24 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
25 | In addition to events previously announced , there will be a Virago Birthday Breakfast to get the conference off to a positive start on the Monday , and four more workshops have been firmed up for the afternoon : ‘ Goodbye to Gutenberg ’ ( speakers Tony Feldman , Japp Buchli of Scheltma Hokema Vermuelen , Paul Ayscough of Columbia TriStar and Michael Kemp of Franklin Electronic ) ; ‘ Targeting the Book Market ’ — The Role of Research ’ ( Peter Mouncey of the AA , Sue Morris of W H Smith and Leslie Henry of BML ) ; ‘ Financial Management for Booksellers ’ ( Ian Newman , Waterstones ) ; and ‘ Take Four Walls — Shop Design on a Budget ’ ( Barry Steadham , Insight Design ) . |
26 | Historical documentation in this field becomes more scarce as the emphasis moves towards other aspects of social organization , despite the highly influential work of the French historian Braudel , whose books ( e.g. 1981 ) include lengthy accounts of patterns of consumption in food , textiles and housing , which have been followed up by the Annales school of historians ( see also Elias 1978 ; Sombart 1967 for alternative traditions ) . |
27 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
28 | Local tradition maintains that over the centuries , pieces of ancient armour and weapons have been ploughed up in the area In 1796 , a carved stone was unearthed near the burial mound but its whereabouts is now unknown . |
29 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
30 | She arrived in a big BMW of the type the East End villains drive now that all the old Jags have been bought up by the TV stations to make cops and robbers series . |