Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Tell them you got shot up by enemy aircraft , ’ Woolley said . |
| 3 | He got phoned up by the other players ? |
| 4 | Yes , Sally says we 'll do it , we 'll change it in the car alright , just as I was saying we had erm , we had roast dinner , Charlotte do n't aggravate him , we had roast lamb , erm and I 'd washed up by two o'clock |
| 5 | And when we 'd gone along fifteen kilometres we 'd gone up by four point eight metres . |
| 6 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |
| 7 | They got called up by the Cabinet Office . |
| 8 | Whatever the world had done to the little wide-eyed innocent who got eaten up by a bad wolf in the big city , it had n't taught her much . |
| 9 | The boaters , 4 adults and 4 children were sailing on the River Severn , when they got swept up by the Severn bore . |
| 10 | Roland felt buoyed up by the height of Maud 's great divan . |
| 11 | Under the old system , it was possible , if a shortage of any one part occurred , to complete a large number of bodies up to the point at which this particular part was required , and even if the whole of the body shop floor eventually became taken up by partially built bodies , it was still possible to keep the body makers employed in splicing bottom sides and cantrails and fitting the pillars in position alongside the partially erected bodies . |
| 12 | Heading south he got beaten up by the Miami cops for having long hair . |
| 13 | Leeds had given up by then but it is not hard to present a case from which they , rather than City , might have ended up celebrating . |
| 14 | The other gyppo had come up by his shoulder . |
| 15 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 16 | The Commons public accounts committee , in its twenty-seventh report published last week , says a backlog of 400,000 uncleared claims for DLA and attendance allowance had built up by June last year . |
| 17 | For it was a mistake by the giant Eachus which transformed the game , gave Glenavon the breakthrough they needed and an upsurge in confidence to sweep to a victory they had wrapped up by half time . |
| 18 | I had sobered up by now and felt terrible . |
| 19 | Also , I had sobered up by then and caused some complications by trying to stop the cheque — until my father came squealing on to the line . |
| 20 | A car had pulled up by the gate . |
| 21 | This was mainly due to demobilization , but others may have been attracted to the region due to the fact that through the expropriation of landowners , the area held by peasants had gone up by 65 per cent since 1917 . |
| 22 | The council was told that the cost had gone up by more than £100,000 because of vandalism to the project . |
| 23 | The following table shows where a sample of school-leavers who had either been on a government Youth Opportunities Scheme ( YOPS ) or been unemployed for six weeks by the beginning of October 1978 had ended up by April 1979 . |
| 24 | Most of the London councils had paid up by then , though some of the large sums promised by the unions were still churning their way through committees . |
| 25 | I 'm sorry I was late getting but I got held up by another lesson . |
| 26 | ‘ These were very serious situations which we wanted cleared up by the NRA but they refused to do anything about it . ’ |