Example sentences of "up and [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps there was some other , unofficial entrance , and right now she was getting ready to give up and leave by the same way . |
| 2 | Draining peatbogs to plant trees releases more carbon dioxide than can ever be taken up and stored by the planted trees , according to a report by Friends of the Earth . |
| 3 | Several thousand species of fish have developed bony connections of some kind to link their swim bladders to the inner ear capsules , so that the vibrations picked up and amplified by the sympathetic resonance of the swim bladder are transmitted to the semicircular canals . |
| 4 | Unilinx services should be up and running by the first quarter of next year . |
| 5 | 'shin " d " encodes past activity , but only in relation to the utterance 's internal system of time referencing which has already been set up and controlled by the deictic references of earlier elements . |
| 6 | As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities . |