Example sentences of "or [vb past] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 2 | It also tells us whether the unknown letter is a single segment letter , or made up from a combination of two segments . |
| 3 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 4 | Pupils would no doubt be intrigued to learn how the milk-can was used to fetch milk from the farm , or filled up from a churn on the milkman 's cart . |
| 5 | Dropped , discarded or duffed up in a temper — who knows ? |
| 6 | Small comfort for those languishing in the prisons or holed up in the hills , one suspects , but their toils have been translated into the stuff of great writing — Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Mario Vargas Llosa and Graham Greene have , in different ways , picked over the moral and political wreckage of Latin America , and you feel it needs writers of their calibre to make sense of it . |
| 7 | Even though these treatments drive the chemicals into the timber to a much greater depth than surface application by spray or brush , the wood may not be completely impregnated , particularly in the heartwood , so that notches and ends cut on site after treatment must be dipped in preservative or touched up with a brush . |
| 8 | If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . |
| 9 | Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait . |
| 10 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 11 | At T/Sgt John E Smith wrote : ‘ You would n't have known these ladies served as mechanics and armourers in the Women 's Royal Air Force beginning 52 years ago by the way they climbed up and the down the stairs at the control tower or scrambled up to the cockpit of an F-16 ’ . |
| 12 | The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) . |
| 13 | Small operators have been driven into bankruptcy or bought up by the giants , and buses have become older and less reliable . |
| 14 | This form of modern-day slavery also exists in the Dominican Republic where thousands of Haitians are bought or rounded up by the military to work in appalling conditions on sugar-cane plantations . |
| 15 | This is Michael Wayland , who appears on television a lot , and who as a consequence can never remember anything unless it 's written on the Autocue , or held up beside the lens in front of him . |
| 16 | As with all guitar noise problems , this effect is most prevalent when the amp is very loud , or set up for an overdrive sound . |