Example sentences of "being [verb] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With so many cables fairly close together it is easy to see why the side stitches remain as loops instead of being picked up with the latch tool at the sides of the cables . |
| 2 | Video 8 , with its inability to dub audio separately , inserts both new pictures and sound , the latter being whatever was being picked up by the camcorder 's microphone while the title was being recorded — unless you have arranged for some other sound to be fed onto the tape ! |
| 3 | Apricot glaze is used for securing icing and marzipan to basic cakes , and is useful as a barrier to prevent cake crumbs from being mixed up with the icing . |
| 4 | She had an impression of being lifted up from the bed — she had cried out in agony , feeling as if she would break in half — and laid upon a stretcher . |
| 5 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 6 | He was a great melodist , but he had a real struggle being caught up in the machinery of making hits . |
| 7 | The banks are often built up in this manner above the level of the surrounding marsh , rather like the levees of a meandering river being built up above the level of the floodplain . |
| 8 | Thanks to an over rate of 11.2 and the time lost to the weather being made up at the end , that fourth day became the longest in Test history , not finishing until 7.40 . |
| 9 | The experience gained here and in other countries is now being written up in the form of guide lines for future motorcycle users . |
| 10 | Telecine Transfer is the recording of film onto tape , normally done in the Telecine Department , but also capable of being fed up to the gallery where a small desk-top electronic camera is set up to record the footage . |
| 11 | You 're not the one who 's being chucked up in the air . |
| 12 | NAMES are being drawn up for the Co Antrim team to take part in May 's Coca-Cola Under 18 Championship . |
| 13 | Proposals are being drawn up by the CI Development Group chaired by Alistair Dawson — consultation with Districts is planned for March . |
| 14 | He was also expected to face separate criminal charges currently being drawn up by the Attorney General , Aristides Junqueira . |
| 15 | The new plans being drawn up by the Countryside Commission and the Forestry Commission for sites near urban areas , mean that half of each site would be planted with mixed forest and the other half would be developed for recreation and farming purposes . |
| 16 | And th and can I restate the view of British Rail , there is little or no prospect of a new station being opened up on the east coast main route main line , because of the four track configuration , which I 'm sure you 'll have seen on your when you 've come up to York by tr by train . |
| 17 | Wainwright 's , Livingstone 's and Hattersley 's articles all provoked various letters in response and hence we can begin to detect a limited , but not insignificant , space for discussion and criticism being opened up within the periphery of critical and not so critical journals . |
| 18 | Far from being wrapped up in the Tour and excited by it , she looked all the time as if she would sooner be anywhere else . |
| 19 | Our magpie memories lingered on the oddities of war in North Devon and Cornwall — of chocolates , cigarettes and , yes , French letters being washed up on the beach . |
| 20 | It was like being washed up by the tide and left stranded . |
| 21 | Cleaning up contamination is wonderfully labour-intensive : some old military sites being cleaned up by the Department of Energy now employ twice as many people as they did at their peak of production . |
| 22 | A 100MHz HyperSparc is now being talked up for the end of next year . |
| 23 | SLF are also in danger of being banged up in the Tower Of London for incurring the wrath of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 24 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 25 | Indeed , if they had thought about it , it would have been all too ludicrously reminiscent of being called up before the headmaster . |
| 26 | Then she was being dragged up from the music stool and she was being shaken by the shoulders as he demanded , ‘ What 's this ? |
| 27 | ‘ Is everything being packed up for the removal men ? ’ |
| 28 | They slip into the shadows of the treacherous world of drug dealing and end up being swallowed up by the lifestyle they are out to eradicate . |
| 29 | The intention , however , as is clear from the document , is to cut back on the number of industrial conferences as that work is being swallowed up by the section conferences and as Robert in seconding the report made perfectly clear , industrial conferences , now called delegate conferences will only be held if there is a negotiating body for which the delegate conference has to frame policy , or in a number of other very limited situations . |
| 30 | ‘ Their problems may be acute , and there is a risk of being swallowed up in the mass of an adult ward . |