Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are n't you getting your wildlife a little mixed up here ? ’ |
| 2 | Thatcher 's administration eventually wound up both the PAR system and CPRS . |
| 3 | Only everything 's been so buggered up today in general … , ’ |
| 4 | John Major 's Val Doonican acts may have been adjudged less successful than the soapbox orations which have so cheered up both his party and himself . |
| 5 | Burun only looked up idly . |
| 6 | It reminded her of the feeling she had had in the room below this one , stood there amongst the shrouded furniture ; that the house was not abandoned , merely boarded up temporarily , awaiting its occupant 's return . |
| 7 | Many scientists saw at once its far-reaching implications and a whole spate of major papers were published in 1967 and 1968 , which quite suddenly added up together to make a completely new way of looking at the Earth 's main working parts : Plate Tectonics . |
| 8 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Albert seemed so grown up suddenly , it made her feel silly and young . |
| 10 | Looked so fed up tonight love . |
| 11 | We 're all pulling for each other because we 've all grown up together — from the youth team to the reserves and the first team . |
| 12 | They 'd all grown up together on the same corpy estate , been to the same sink school , gone out with the same dreary lads . |
| 13 | Felt started out 10 years ago and recorded 10 albums before breaking up this week after a final show in their home town , Birmingham , thus concluding the curious master-plan that was apparently drawn up early in their career by the band 's singer and song-writer , who is known simply as Lawrence . |
| 14 | Well he 's so hyped up now . |
| 15 | He had obviously cleaned up also , and shaved . |
| 16 | Reasons are often better thought up beforehand , and this is an approach that benefits particularly from pre-planning . |
| 17 | Viewed from the standards of the outside world , the main trends in human life are perhaps shown up rather more clearly here : selfishness , courage , the desire for escape , self-fulfilment etc ’ but then once you 're here you do n't think about the standards of the outside world very much . ’ |
| 18 | But Michael Barnes is keeping his plans for that celebration time secret — the most important thing right now is getting the Opera House all lit up again for Jack and the Beanstalk . |
| 19 | Wages were only pulled up slowly , implying weak pressure to scrap old plant and replace it with new . |
| 20 | It had only woken up again when it had been brought into the Store , near electricity . |
| 21 | Frederick was apparently brought up there with the daughter , Hester , of the new marriage , but he ran away to sea . |
| 22 | The Signature 's neck feels glossier , and the action at the bridge has been better set up so that the strings lie well above the ashtray 's sides ; otherwise both guitars are very playable , with good , low nuts and buzz-free actions . |
| 23 | Nicely summed up too . |
| 24 | When I drive off , I am so churned up inside that I find myself hoping I sha n't make things worse by having a coronary on the way to work . ’ |
| 25 | In the spring of 1988 , the apparently moribund plan for rural systematization which had been heralded as far back as 1968 was suddenly taken up again . |
| 26 | I knew it 'd all started up again . ’ |
| 27 | You 've got to push down on the bike to get your seating right so when you 're on the throttle it 's all hooked up together . |
| 28 | It 's got these tight sleeves that look too short and the bottom bit is all bunched up so when she turns it all billows out . |
| 29 | The sheep were tearing across the field all bunched up together . |
| 30 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |