Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You fitted more snugly into society , especially , the tight little society around the Consul-General , if you were married and could take your wife along to dinner-parties with you , instead of forever having to be fixed up with a stray aunt or somebody . |
| 2 | There is jurisdiction for actions valued at less than £50,000 to be transferred up to the High Court under ss41(1) or 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 , although such transfers are likely to occur only in exceptional cases raising questions of general public interest . |
| 3 | You need to be cooped up with a Jermiah like a hole in the head ! |
| 4 | Despite a statement by Selwyn Lloyd , the Foreign Secretary , in the House of Commons on 23rd July that there was ‘ no question of large-scale operations by British troops on the ground ’ , Army units had to be flown up to the Oman from Kenya to support the Sultan 's armed forces in crushing the rebellion . |
| 5 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 6 | I did n't care to be squashed up in the shelter . |
| 7 | You can also ask for the patient 's meal to be cut up in the kitchen ready to eat , although this is something that can be done when you order the meal . |
| 8 | SECURITY is to be stepped up at a Darlington pensioners ' community centre following two break-ins . |
| 9 | Blood sugar needs to be kept up to the correct level in order to allow both body and mind to function correctly , and the body is very clever at informing us of its requirements . |
| 10 | All of which had had to be bottled up during a frustrating day . |
| 11 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |
| 12 | Over a thousand years ago the Phoenix King Morvael introduced a system of training large bodies of troops to be called up from the populace . |
| 13 | Simon was expected to be called up by the Army , and sent off God knew where . |
| 14 | Previously Venturous had been a noteworthy arrival to be written up in the local press . |
| 15 | When a thin section of a basalt is examined under a microscope , it can be seen to be made up of a closely-felted mass of interlocking needle-like crystals of feldspar , a millimetre or so long , with a scattering of more colourful tiny crystals of olivine and pyroxene and some black opaque specks of iron oxides . |
| 16 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or electrical impulses . ’ |
| 17 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses . |
| 18 | Electromagnetic radiation oscillating v times a second turns out to be made up of a whole number of packets of energy , each of amount unc where h is Planck 's celebrated constant . |
| 19 | Instead it has to be made up of a band of waves of different wavelengths , cunningly chosen to cancel each other out outside the region of width unc and to reinforce each other inside it . |
| 20 | Lateral thinking and tolerating eccentricity are British characteristics whereas quality programmes tend to be made up of a lot of little things which cumulatively add up to something important . ’ |
| 21 | This would enable parcels of instruments to be made up to a given value , type or maturity for sale and thus improve their marketability . |
| 22 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 23 | You will need the same heading allowance as for pinch pleats if it is to be made up as a curtain heading , but for making a valance you will need only 1.5cm ( ½in ) for the heading allowance . |
| 24 | With a low-start , low-cost with-profits endowment , payments are reduced in the first few years , and the difference has to be made up in the remaining period . |
| 25 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 27 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 28 | We have to ensure that people who deserve to be locked up for the public good are locked up . |
| 29 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 30 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |