Example sentences of "up and [vb pp] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His younger brother Philip was tied up and locked in the boot of a car for three hours while the gang made their getaway . |
| 2 | His younger brother Philip was tied up and locked in the boot of a car for three hours to stop the family raising the alarm while the thugs made their getaway . |
| 3 | He proved that all 17,000 verses could be minutely inscribed on a piece of parchment 10.8 in by 8.4 in , which could then be folded up and placed in a walnut shell . |
| 4 | The soldiers relaxed , laughing , whilst the hostages stood up and joined in the celebrations . |
| 5 | With peeled veneer , a round log is heated in a steam pit for about twenty-four hours and then set up and rotated in a lathe in which a long knife peels the veneer circumferentially at a speed which is wonderful to watch . |
| 6 | We can supply an N-Reg aircraft with a trust set up and included in the price in order to allow legal ownership in the UK/Europe . |
| 7 | Every tiny fragment of fibre , denim and leather was picked up and dropped in the bags . |
| 8 | She flipped the panel up and keyed in the code , banging her elbow against the wall as the executive transporter pressed close . |
| 9 | Other mornings it had been rolled up and put in a plastic case within minutes of my getting out of it . |
| 10 | A revised project brief should be drawn up and logged in the record of activities . |
| 11 | In a large , prefabricated shed we wandered past stacks of 45-gallon drums of PCBs , two drums high , about 10 deep ; and there were contaminated transformers waiting to be cut up and roasted in the flames . |
| 12 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 13 | About 4lb of Semtex was discovered rolled up and primed in a prison lavatory . |
| 14 | Then Freddy got blown up and drowned in a shell crater , and all the time Margery was in a hotel two hundred miles away , putting Woolley to bed , dead drunk after a promotion . |
| 15 | ‘ The problem is that I learnt this trick whilst tied up and submerged in a barrel of water . |