Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came back to the world of RAM and ROM , my subconscious had apparently been connecting up some loose neurons , and everything fell into place . |
| 2 | The raising of a mentally handicapped child is a long and hard road , but then many would say so is bringing up any child . |
| 3 | They had already been hauled up eight times , the first during the summer of 1981 , and had been fined a total of £23,200 . |
| 4 | I believe I have unconsciously been picking up modern reformed attitudes to nature from television wildlife programmes . |
| 5 | Our congratulations go to two Trainers , who will shortly be taking up new appointments — Joan Gatfield has been appointed as Associate Lecturer at Southwark and Hilary Weedon is now Senior Liaison Officer of the National Childrens Play and Recreation Unit of the Sports Council . |
| 6 | An extra £5 million would be brought forward from next year to offset the extra cost , but it would not be made up next year . |
| 7 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 8 | Midland is expected to put $100million of its debt portfolio into the scheme but it will not be putting up any new money . |
| 9 | Detectives investigating the murder of a woman at her home are following up new leads . |
| 10 | MORE than half Britain 's councils will still be chasing up old poll debts five years after the tax was abolished . |
| 11 | MORE than half Britain 's councils will still be chasing up old poll debts five years after the tax was abolished . |
| 12 | The Old Stager was on to a theme which he had clearly been bottling up all season . |
| 13 | In addition to the work being carried out in the UNEP HQ at Nairobi and in the GEMS/GRID site in Geneva , a series of GRID regional nodes are now being set up world-wide , each equipped with the same hardware and software and local subsets of the data . |
| 14 | Defying the need to slump her head dejectedly on to her arms , to howl long and hard that every minute of this evening had been utter hell and that all she wanted now was to curl up safe and warm in her own bed . |
| 15 | But , but really we , I mean we should n't be running up massive bills like this |
| 16 | Well , we shall certainly be setting up some projects , but we would hope to use small-scale projects which are perhaps already underway in different local authorities . |
| 17 | According to Steve Hinton , the project is currently being held up due to a lack of parts , but the machine should be airborne within a couple of months . |