Example sentences of "be [verb] up and the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All pretence that the paper ever belonged to MacQuillan personally had been given up and the title transferred to a newly formed company within the MacQuillan empire . |
| 2 | The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame . |
| 3 | After the cross-country phase , the penalties are added up and the competitor with the fewest penalties wins . |
| 4 | After cutting the material is passed through to the machining room where the sails are sewn up and the hanks etc. are put on . |
| 5 | Over the past sixty years the buildings housing the scientific laboratories and teaching classrooms have been built up and the population of students and staff has grown until there are now nearly one thousand registered postgraduate students and over one thousand academic , research and support staff . |
| 6 | push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away |
| 7 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 8 | MIPS ' ACE liaison officer and vice president of software technology , Larry Weber , said the sixteen companies on the board wo n't be sent their third-quarter bills until after all the MIPS-SGI merger details are cleaned up and the need for these funds is reassessed . |
| 9 | There is no way that the repairs will be completed on time , but we have been assured that the hall will be patched up and the festival will be running as planned . ’ |
| 10 | Expropriations were to be speeded up and the land settlements were to become new reform units , with wider criteria for membership , thus increasing the number of beneficiaries . |
| 11 | Category A debt 's interest will be paid on time with the principal repaid as cash comes in ; interest on B debt will be rolled up and the capital not repaid until all A debt is redeemed . |
| 12 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 13 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 14 | As the course lengthens the bed of the distributary will be built up and the situation may arise where a levee is breached and a new shorter course to the sea made available . |
| 15 | It was found later that if bore holes were sunk into the deposits and water circulated in them , the solution could be pumped up and the salt extracted by evaporation , and this is what is done at Marston ( q.v . ) . |
| 16 | The bank undertook to arrange for the necessary documents to be drawn up and the manager gave instructions that both the husband and the wife were to be made aware of the nature and effect of the documents they would sign , and that the wife should be advised to take legal advice if she had any doubts about them . |
| 17 | Therefore I think it would be a better idea if units could be set up and the children could be taken out of an ordinary school for perhaps one or two or three years , according to how much time is required , where they could give the individual attention and the specialist teaching to help them to overcome this particular problem . |
| 18 | If , however , the salvage is not worthwhile then the remains should not be taken up and the Policyholder should be told that its disposal is again their responsibility . |
| 19 | What had occurred was precisely the sort of ‘ semi-hysterical outburst of militancy ’ which McCann had criticised , and far from exposing and isolating the Nationalists , an informal united front had been struck up and the politicians were being allowed to clamber onto the DHAC 's bandwagon . |
| 20 | Needless to say , thanks to an over-dependence on Hawkins 's remark , this has never been followed up and the harpsichord can no longer be identified . |
| 21 | San Diego Wild Animal Park is the best kind of ‘ zoo ’ — one where the people are rounded up and the animals wander free . |
| 22 | where all else fails , contingencies are eaten up and the coffers are bare , doomsday would see other budgets being raided and Peter 's services being run down to help pay for Paul . |
| 23 | Huge tents , open-fronted , had been put up and the Empress came in state with all her ladies , veiled to the eyes , and took her place on the throne . |
| 24 | The next day County issued a press release announcing that 48.9% of the shares had been taken up and the rest sold on the market . |
| 25 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 26 | Volunteers are signed up and the hunt gets underway — not only for sufficient food , but also equipment for turning a building into a temporary home . |
| 27 | When each pairing had gone through 200 moves of the game , the winnings were totalled up and the winner declared . |
| 28 | Now we were grown up and the difference in our ages was immaterial . |
| 29 | Then reverse curves were coming up and the train ran through the first curve but was going too fast for the next one and the train left the track , killing certainly the driver and fireman and one or two passengers , I believe . |
| 30 | Members of a random sample of 1000 men aged 65 in 1955 were followed up and the numbers still alive after successive 5-year intervals were found to be as follows : Construct a life table for these men including estimates of life expectancy at the start of successive 5-year age periods . |