Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the mature pop groups come from Scotland or the northernmost parts of England , but all their musical reference points seem bound up with American ideas of sophistication and glamour . |
| 2 | I get fed up with bloody cards , so erm I said we 'll go . |
| 3 | It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles , each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future . |
| 4 | And they 've come up with several suggestions . |
| 5 | So although we think that our method is best , we fully realize that you 've got styles , things th which you 've built up over many years . |
| 6 | The partnership which we 've built up over many years with you means that I 'm confident that British tax payers and recipients in er dep developing countries are getting the best possible value for money when government supports S C F initiatives and what is true for S C F is true for the many other M G , N G Os with whom we work . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've lived here all my life , Mr Wycliffe , and I 've grown up with such tales ; nobody takes them seriously . ’ |
| 8 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 9 | We 've teamed up with XL Records to give away 25 pairs of tickets to the massive Vision rave at Popham Airfield , near Winchester , Hants . |
| 10 | The tunnels were built in the reign of George the third … but engineers say they 've stood up to two centuries of wear remarkably well . |
| 11 | If you 've ended up with 2 secs. stop down and repeat until you get something more useful . |
| 12 | If you 've ended up with 2 secs. stop down and repeat until you get something more useful . |
| 13 | ‘ The art museums of the United States have given up on great shows with the exception of Carter Brown , and now he 's out . |
| 14 | The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions . |
| 15 | The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions . |
| 16 | Full details from Editor : We 'd very much like to hear from others who have come up with profitable solutions to this seasonal problem . |
| 17 | As it is , they have two and have come up with various suggestions as to what selectors do their thinking with . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the philologists , putting together the various clues inside the Kalevala — it is bright , it was forged , it is a kind of mill , it brings luck , it made the sea salt — have come up with innumerable solutions , at once vague and pedantic : the sampo was the Golden Fleece , some fertility-cult object , a Lappish pillar-idol , an allegory of the sky . |
| 19 | In 1653 they were fined for ‘ … not impounding the hogs which have turned up in divers places ’ . |
| 20 | However , over a period of time , and partly encouraged by urban planning policies , commuter villages have grown up at greater distances from the cities . |
| 21 | Some , like Pesaro and Senigallia , have grown up around medieval towns and still retain old-world charm . |
| 22 | Course manager Jack Bennett said : ‘ We have had up to nine inches of water on the chase course , and half the hurdles course is flooded as well . ’ |
| 23 | Parent companies can thereby keep under tight control the capital they have tied up in idle stocks and make substantial savings on fixed outlay in storage or warehousing . |
| 24 | They have spent up to six holidays a year at Butlins sites , starting in 1952 . |
| 25 | Solicitors today are men and women who have spent up to seven years qualifying . |
| 26 | Solicitors today are men and women who have spent up to seven years qualifying . |
| 27 | Solicitors are men and women who have spent up to seven years qualifying in law . |
| 28 | Solicitors today are men and women who have spent up to seven years qualifying . |
| 29 | Solicitors today are men and women who have spent up to seven years qualifying . |
| 30 | So we spend a season trying to adjust — a tough job in particular for the senior players who have spent up to 20 years operating a certain way — and then find it may all change again weeks before the British Lions fly down to New Zealand . |