Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decisions which he regards as important must be continually referred up the line to his superiors , for inter-departmental consultations etc . |
| 2 | When the loan has been fully paid up the lender has to reassign the house to the borrower . |
| 3 | Its arms clutched these objects as they were individually passed up the ladder to its niche : followed by its disembodied head , with a physiognomy very close to that of the photographs of the deceased . |
| 4 | Manu National Park , which is more isolated up the Madre de Dios River , has two million insects , one thousand species of birds , fifteen thousand species of plants , two hundred species of freshwater fish , two hundred species of bats — some still unknown to science . |
| 5 | Er , right , so stylistically she has erm , she 's picked up , and she 's actually picked up the patterning as well of that , whereas in the middle English one , it was , th the sight , the odour , the touch , no , it was the smell , the touch , she has used an infini an infinitive of a verb , which gets away from the problem , that we do n't use nouns for these things . |