Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 2 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 3 | It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother . |
| 4 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 5 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 6 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 7 | His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs . |
| 8 | The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage . |
| 9 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 10 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 11 | Okay what what do you think now you 're you 're you 're you 're a hairdresser of some standing in London , why do you think that men get so hung up about all of this kind of hair ? |
| 12 | Keith Richards tells with a mixture of jealousy and amazement the story that the guitar classes John Lee conducts at home are entirely made up of young girls . |
| 13 | In Britain , it is almost entirely made up of upper-middle class , late-middle aged , white men . |
| 14 | In fact atoms are almost entirely made up of free space . |
| 15 | ‘ I was just so fed up with all the internal politics . |
| 16 | I usually call myself half German because people get so fed up with all the Germans who say they 're Austrian . ’ |
| 17 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 18 | Such an equation is basically made up of two parts : viz which indicates that business conditions are good , and which indicates business conditions are poor . |
| 19 | They 've only got up to these ones , we do n't know which numbers they are . |
| 20 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 21 | Mild defects only shown up on sophisticated psychological testing are common in people with AIDS , or who are unwell as a result of HIV infection . |
| 22 | Also , since conjunction is a device for signalling relations between chunks of information , it is naturally bound up with both the chunking of information , how much to say in one go , and with how the relations between such chunks of information are perceived and signalled . |
| 23 | And obviously they have their own priorities , so they do n't necessarily , they 're not necessarily geared up for that . |
| 24 | I was too defiant to return to such an art school , so cramped , so bunged up with petty authority . |
| 25 | Playing Richard is so bound up with physical attitude , and I think that as actors we are not well enough equipped to meet that kind of physical thinking in that kind of role . |
| 26 | But the Swiss Confederation of all 23 cantons was only set up in 1848 . |
| 27 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |
| 28 | Yes , erm very , very quickly , erm I notice that the swimming pool and river bathing visits had more than doubled , I just wondered what the cause of that was , and whether in fact it was mainly related to the swimming pools or to the river bathing bit erm places , and the second one is , regarding the noise , I notice that it has shot up , the number of visits to seven twenty one , but in fact , the prosecution 's only gone up to one , and I wondered if Mr Fenn could tell us whether in fact because of the higher profile that had been given to this erm activity , due to its possible cut , whether in fact more people are aware of it and there were more |
| 29 | So split up into four groups as wi with we did once before . |
| 30 | Any complaints from tenants will be swiftly followed up within one working day where possible . |