Example sentences of "[is] now [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Murrin , realizing he had been used , gave me a copy of the tape , which is now locked up in my lawyer 's safe . |
| 2 | She is now locked up in a mental institution — and only strength of character probably stopped the same fate from happening to Gless . |
| 3 | The story may have a basis in fact ; it is possible there was a prehistoric dwelling here that is now swallowed up in the mud at the bottom of the lake . |
| 4 | The club is now written up in style magazines ; models are photographed with the head waiter . |
| 5 | The world is now parcelled up in independent States which claim a monopoly in the employment of nationalism . |
| 6 | Peter Earl , joint leader of the DHL 40 expedition , said from base camp at 17,500ft : ‘ She is now tucked up in her sleeping bag in a tent . |
| 7 | This Board , whose role is by no means a formality , as it has to vet every one of the artists shown at the exhibition , is now made up of people who reflect the old groupings : seven Christian Democrats , six Socialists , two PDS ( formerly Communist ) , one Liberal and one Social Democrat . |
| 8 | That support ended the Peace of Kallias , and Persian intervention in Greek affairs is now stepped up ( 413 ) . |
| 9 | They are at their best when they take chances , throwing a dash of reggae and a muted heavy-metal riff into Do n't Knock Till You Try It , and when they re-work an old folk standard , 500 Miles , which is now dressed up with a reggae beat , lap-steel guitar , and harmonica , new lyrics about Tiananmen Square , and the dreaded Peter , Paul And Mary still joining in . |
| 10 | The inlets behind the spit at Seaford are now infilled ; at Shoreham , the early harbour is now silted up , and at Winchelsea , the sea which destroyed the earlier site has now abandoned the second . |
| 11 | Today , Finniston runs his own small firm ( small by comparison with British Steel at any rate ) , but at least fifty per cent of his time is now taken up with interests outside the corporate world . |
| 12 | The story is now taken up at second hand . |
| 13 | The worker is now taken up with his boss 's needs . |
| 14 | CICS/6000 is a good product , Data Logic argues , but falls down because it is now caught up in the world of IBM marketing strategy . |
| 15 | Eubank is now lined up to fight Paraguay 's Juan Carlos Gimmez on November 28in Manchester . |
| 16 | Some examples : part way through the process , the PTFE ‘ cake ’ is now bagged up to stop contamination getting in . |
| 17 | it 's now ended up like nothing 's happening . |
| 18 | She 's now grown up with her own baby . |
| 19 | Now , when I started to ba er buy my house , we are paying , we were paying twenty seven pound a month for the upkeep of the building , it 's now went up to thirty four pound twenty two pence a month . |