Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be packed up and gone With nothing in |
| 2 | Miss Chalmers is a keen holiday-goer herself but while the viewers over Christmas will be seeing her in Mauritius , she says : ‘ I 'll be wrapped up warmly at home in London . ’ |
| 3 | Some day I know I 'll be bagged up and sent |
| 4 | By that time hopefully I 'll be signed up as a crew member . |
| 5 | ‘ I could be tied up until quite late , ’ he told her , ‘ but as soon as I 'm free I 'll come round to your hotel . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd be made up with you would you ? |
| 7 | ‘ If that delegation had got inside here the other day , you and I would be locked up in here , ’ said Nicholson . |
| 8 | Enough work so that I could enjoy it but not so much work that I would be fed up . |
| 9 | I was always waiting for the day when I would be beaten up , but it never came . |
| 10 | When I started playing with white men I was called a Nazi , a traitor and was told I would be put up against a wall and shot . |
| 11 | As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's a first-rate idea , ’ Harry said , ‘ because I shall be tied up tomorrow . |
| 13 | " No more lifts , I 'm afraid , I shall be packed up and gone till spring . |
| 14 | I do n't know how long I shall be laid up with this wretched ankle . |
| 15 | I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part . |
| 16 | Recently I have spoken to three senior academic clinicians and they have told me that I will be snapped up . |
| 17 | Erm oh well maybe yours can be saved up for another time ? |
| 18 | The academic development and day-to-day management of fields , which may be made up of modules contributed from more than one department , are , however , in the hands of Field Committees headed by elected Field Chairs ( the horizontal axis ) . |
| 19 | You may input an unlimited number of addresses which may be called up by name , town , any of two user-defined fields or simply scroll through the list in ‘ Rolodex ’ fashion . |
| 20 | You may input an unlimited number of addresses which may be called up by name , town , any of two user-defined fields or simply scroll through the list in ‘ Rolodex ’ fashion . |
| 21 | Across the 30 pages of the booklet are details of ‘ ppe for use in a very dangerous situation ’ ( e.g. facing Waqar Younis ) , ‘ ppe which may be caught up during use ’ ( which requires the equipment to have an ‘ appropriate resistance threshold above which a constituent part will break and eliminate the danger ’ . |
| 22 | Guild members are not content with the position in the cooperative world which may be summed up in the saying of the man ‘ My wife and I are one , and I am that one ’ . |
| 23 | In the long term , there has been a gradual but clearly identifiable change in the attitude of British business since the Second World War , which may be summed up in a single word : management . |
| 24 | thirdly , some principles of professional practice which may be drawn up on the basis of these discussions . |
| 25 | ‘ In this section — … ‘ company ’ means a company within the meaning given by section 735(1) of the Companies Act or a company which may be wound up under Part V of this Act ( unregistered companies ) ; … |
| 26 | The position would , of course , have been plainer if Parliament had provided an expanded express definition of ‘ company ’ for the purposes of the group of sections which relate to administrative receivers , such as was done in the case of section 388(4) of the Act of 1986 , and was also done , for example , in section 22(2) ( b ) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 , where company is defined as including ‘ any company which may be wound up under Part V of the Insolvency Act . ’ |
| 27 | The definition of ‘ company ’ in section 22(2) ( b ) of that Act includes any company which may be wound up under Part V of the Insolvency Act . |
| 28 | Each leaf section will produce a small plant , which should be potted up initially into a 2–3in pot , and potted on as growth dictates . |
| 29 | In the case of a City Code transaction where the firm is making an offer on behalf of its client , a separate contract ( which should be drawn up by the firm 's lawyers ) should form the basis of the firm 's responsibilities for making such an offer . |
| 30 | Nominations , which should be backed up with as much information as possible , should be sent to the Veuve Clicquot Award , Freepost , London E1 9BR by 31 January . |