Example sentences of "[verb] up by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |
| 2 | Shades of the Mediterranean are conjured up by the aquas and terracottas from Oneworld Trading 's accessories . |
| 3 | If you are on your GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
| 4 | If you are on GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
| 5 | Up in the gallery a careful watch is being kept on sound levels to ensure the noise from the fan is drowned out by the radiophonic wind effect now carrying through the studio 's talkback system and being picked up by the microphones . |
| 6 | But her remarks in America would subsequently be picked up by the papers here — so she would have two platforms . |
| 7 | That was rotten , now Mr Coombes feels there 's something rotten about how it 's been picked up by the planners . |
| 8 | By 1929 the drift towards a new cinema as being picked up by the critics , who eagerly pointed out both what they liked in the new films and what they thought would be well received by audiences . |
| 9 | But whatever its humble origins , when the new word was picked up by the newspapers in August 1898 it was quickly transformed into a term of more general notoriety , so that ‘ Hooligan ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ became the controlling words to describe troublesome youths who had previously been known more loosely as ‘ street arabs ’ , ‘ ruffians ’ or ‘ roughs ’ . |
| 10 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 11 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 12 | Some were immediately picked up by the demons , whilst others managed again and again to risk their lives before falling to the persistent attacks of the creatures from hell . |
| 13 | This is often picked up by the programmers , who then make the system more secure . ’ |
| 14 | ( He was later picked up by the Italians and made a prisoner . ) |
| 15 | Am I going to some strange hospital with him to see his dad , or am I going to wander around Bristol all day waiting to be picked up by the police or my poor darling anxious parents ? |
| 16 | He refrained from taking any alcohol or drugs , but when he returned to Hollywood to commence filming , he began drinking again and was picked up by the police for drunken driving . |
| 17 | Be picked up by the police ? |
| 18 | The three men on board admitted to the smuggling attempt and a fourth man was picked up by the police as the waited in a parked car at the landing place . |
| 19 | A pair of mallard and a lone wigeon are taking advantage of the weeds torn up by the swans , and a party of common gulls are bathing by the lochside . |
| 20 | It was hard to be torn up by the roots , to have his books , easels , prints and materials of study dragged from their places . |
| 21 | BELVILLE : You must be as flexible as the reed in the fable lest by resisting the tempest like the oak you be torn up by the roots . |
| 22 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 23 | The oil spilt from the Braer was unusually light and toxic , and this , combined with fierce storms which mixed it into the seawater and caused it combine to form clumps with fine particles churned up by the waves , meant that rather than floating to the surface , as is normal with spilt crude oil , it was carried by ocean currents far from the spill site and later redeposited in deep " sumps " on the seabed . |
| 24 | The house is seized by the demolition contractors , its park invaded and churned up by the tractors and trailers of the timber merchant . |
| 25 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 26 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 27 | Much of the difference between costs and revenues is made up by the losses of owners . |
| 28 | I believe the problem is worse in Craven Arms that is shown up by the figures , |
| 29 | Absurd of him , because at the end of the following week the annual staff assessments were due to be drawn up by the Superintendents . |
| 30 | The radical programmes drawn up by the experts were severely qualified . |