Example sentences of "be [verb] up [prep] the [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 I AM fed up with the media blasting Kenya 's tourist industry .
2 He would remove the radios from aircraft B and substitute them with the radios stolen from aircraft A. He would then be picked up by the aircraft he came in , leaving with the radios removed from aircraft B.
3 It is understood that these solicitors ( Norton Rose ) have asked claimants to look to their own insurers first and that any claims in addition will be met up to the £2,700 Convention limit .
4 Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic .
5 The usual opposition has been put up by the sales contingent in the form of Jim Cavalier , the sales director .
6 erm I I think that being able to acknowledge for themselves — the adults — for them to be able to acknowledge to themselves that this is a very stressful time , that erm that children may be needing that extra bit of sensitivity erm in terms of how we respond to their behaviour , which may be very erm connected with the general level excitement and and stress that I think we as adults are feeling , and certainly that are being picked up from the media .
7 Being brought up on the fish starved waters of the North West he took no prisoners when he drew on fish on the richer waters in the Midlands .
8 Despite what was then described as the worst financial recession for fifty years , the Mallaig train sold out in just nine days , there being no shortage of takers for seats which by now were creeping up towards the £40 mark , and beyond the pockets of the traditional excursion-train traveller .
9 A report from the Lower Franconian town of Kitzingen in May 1943 , dealing particularly with opinion among academics , salespeople , and the bourgeoisie — groups which had earlier tended to be pro-Nazi in their sympathies — stated that ‘ a disgust about the Party was building up among the people , and a rage which would one day boil over ’ .
10 Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people .
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