Example sentences of "and [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 2 | " For which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed , and given up into the hands of wicked men , and to suffer death upon the cross . |
| 3 | Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself . |
| 4 | Rachaela walked into the area and squeezed up to the chest . |
| 5 | So er a a micro electrode was er fabricated and then put inside a cell and connected up with an amplifier . |
| 6 | Last night started out with spilt acid and built up to a pellmell slide down stairs , across motorways , into a baby shop , on out-of-control roller-skates . |
| 7 | Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser . |
| 8 | Session 1992 — 3 A programme of events will be discussed and drawn up at the June meeting . |
| 9 | Session 1992–3 A programme of events will be discussed and drawn up at the June meeting . |
| 10 | This vast stocktaking and forward-planning exercise was commissioned by Richard Luce in 1990 , and drawn up with the aid of 44 discussion papers and 3,000 participants . |
| 11 | With loop-in wiring , the wires are labelled carefully , and drawn up into the space above the ceiling , where they should be reconnected in a junction box , in exactly the same way that they were connected in the ceiling rose , and a cable taken from this junction box to the light fitting through the hole in the ceiling ( if the new light fitting is in the same place ) . |
| 12 | Her hair was dyed grey and drawn up in a bun , with two needles crossed through it . |
| 13 | And he went on : ‘ And if we 're at home , we make sure we 've eaten and washed up before the show . ’ |
| 14 | Now , on Saturday morning , she thumped on the cottage door and at the same time leaned back from her ample waist and called up at the casement window . |
| 15 | Mr Puri was wheeled out and trussed up on a chair near the shrine . |
| 16 | Within minutes one was torn from reading a book to being gagged and trussed up in a sack , carried down stairs by running men , waiting for the bag to slip or rip and one 's head or neck to smash against the hard stone steps . |
| 17 | He was mercilessly tortured , blindfolded and trussed up in a cupboard for four months , but he refused to break . |
| 18 | One of the spoke machines from the Road Vehicle Shop was adapted ; cutter block was quickly made and set up by the tool-room , but two dimensions could not be attained in this process . |
| 19 | This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue . |
| 20 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 21 | The 44-year-old director was born and brought up on a ranch in California , before attending military school and a spell in the Marines . |
| 22 | The Clifford family owned the estate for almost 200 years from 1469 , and there is a legend that Henry Clifford was sent into hiding by his mother to Londesborough and brought up as a shepherd . |
| 23 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 24 | Although from Canadian stock , I was born and brought up in a suburb of New York City . |
| 25 | Like Karim , Hanif Kureishi was born of a Pakistani father and an English mother and brought up in the London borough of Bromley . |
| 26 | ‘ After all , I was born and brought up in the north of Scotland . |
| 27 | Members of the Korean minority have started to question the exclusivity of a Japan which has denied citizenship and certain basic human rights even to those born and brought up in the country . |
| 28 | Born and brought up in the area , unlike other members of the group who had lived locally for Periods of one to seven years . |
| 29 | The inquest heard how Mr Ryder was born and brought up in the Huyton area of Liverpool . |
| 30 | ‘ Her mother was found abandoned as a baby , and brought up in an orphanage just outside Mestre ; her father was a British serviceman . |