Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 2 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 3 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 4 | The other end of the rainbow was presumably curled up inside the cloud . |
| 5 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 6 | The ferocious ‘ Wally ’ Fuentes Morrison only joined up after the 1973 coup . |
| 7 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 8 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 9 | One of them died soon afterwards ; and the other one — I saw it myself-was so bad and its head so swollen up with the stings that it had to be supported in its stable by a kind of sling fixed to the roof . ’ |
| 10 | Unprecedented anti-government street demonstrations in Tirana on July 1 were brutally broken up by the security forces , and the next day four Albanians fled to the West German embassy , to be joined by 3,200 others in the course of the following week . |
| 11 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 12 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 13 | Morale only picked up after the restart at the beginning of a 70-mile , three-day run and walk up and over Mount Chirripo . |
| 14 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 15 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 16 | Actually they 're all er they are , nearly all of them have been broken so they 've obviously caught up with the list from the . |
| 17 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 18 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 19 | There was a seriously dangerous note in his voice now , Cassie thought , so caught up in the play that she hardly realized that she was part of the script and it was she whom Johnny was talking about . |
| 20 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 21 | The State Department in Washington still must decide what to do with the migrants , apparently picked up by the Panamanian-registered East Wood from an island off China to be smuggled to Hawaii . |
| 22 | This is gently mixed up with the compost and the worms get to work . |
| 23 | This point is sensibly picked up in the Vienna Sales Convention , which provides in article 1(2) that : The fact that the parties have their places of business in different States is to be disregarded whenever this fact does not appear from the contract or from any dealings between , or from , information disclosed by , the parties at any time before or at the conclusion of the contract . ’ |
| 24 | They were very much caught up in the opinion that if they were an indie band , it could n't possibly be worth a major record company taking them seriously . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't understand why you should get so wound up about the prospect of making love now , when before you were … offhand about it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 27 | He was all curled up in the gutter , naked . |
| 28 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 29 | He was an unhappy personality , who had obviously grown up in the shadow of his father and had decided that the assumption of a totally aggressive demeanour was the only way of maintaining a personality of his own that would be distinct from that of his famous , indeed most famous — parent . |
| 30 | This is why Peter gets so steamed up with the sales people from the software houses . |