Example sentences of "[verb] up by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be a flash new car , stumped up by a wealthy director who can write off the cost of the car as a demonstration model from his own showroom . |
| 2 | His interest in media started as a by-product of buying the House of Fraser , initially a large department stores group built up by a nationalistic Scot , Lord Fraser of Annandale . |
| 3 | Massud , who was picked up by a Pakistani helicopter from the Afghan border , arrived in Islamabad after attending an important meeting of mujaheddin commanders inside Afghanistan on Oct. 9-12 . |
| 4 | The men eventually ran off , leaving Thomas of Mochdre , near Colwyn Bay , to be picked up by a passing motorist . |
| 5 | The men eventually ran off , leaving Thomas of Mochdre , near Colwyn Bay , to be picked up by a passing motorist . |
| 6 | You could follow my example and hitchhike out of Miami airport , but only if you 're prepared to risk being picked up by a religious maniac , or dropped off in an impenetrable jungle of freeways close to the cocaine-dealing centre of America , or both . |
| 7 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 8 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 9 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |
| 10 | There they were picked up by a white ship crewed by the remnants of the Queen 's Guard . |
| 11 | As an alternative , radio versions are now available at economic prices ; these allow virtually unrestricted movement to the wearer , the signals being picked up by a special receiver which passes them on to the camcorder via a short cable connection . |
| 12 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 13 | Lieutenant Davis was caught ashore next night and his paddler , Able Seaman McGuire , was picked up by an armed fishing boat . |
| 14 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 15 | Police fear the instrument may have been dumped and could be picked up by an unsuspecting member of the public . |
| 16 | With a sinking heart she arranged for her things to come up by an outside porter , and then set off for home . |
| 17 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 18 | Her chin was tipped up by a ruthless finger . |
| 19 | Eventually , stirred up by a fire-breathing minister called Reverend George Whitefield , the mob , that is to say , congregation , censored the proceedings by the simple expedient of pulling the theatre to bits . |
| 20 | Even Emil Fischer , in propounding the idea that proteins were built up by a standard linkage ( -CO-NH- ) between different amino acids , apparently did not envisage molecules containing more than 30 or so such units , corresponding to no more than 300 atoms which is much too small . |
| 21 | The reputation of this division has been built up by a dedicated management team , many of which have been involved in contractual cleaning operations as well as in-house posts . |
| 22 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 23 | Some of this deficit was made up by a further encroachment upon the lands of the Church ; the chantries were dissolved in 1548 and episcopal property came under pressure towards the end of the reign . |
| 24 | President Lansana Conte ( who on April 4 , 1990 , was given the rank of major-general by the CMRN ) said in his 1990 New Year address that the draft constitution being drawn up by a 50-member committee chaired by Foreign Minister Maj. Jean Traore would be submitted to the nation for discussion and amendment during 1990 ; a referendum on it would be held by the end of the year [ see also p. 37060 ] . |
| 25 | A " D " notice has no legal force : it is merely " advice " to the media , drawn up by a joint committee of representatives of the press and the armed forces . |
| 26 | The report , drawn up by a special council management team , says drastic measures are needed to stop the decline . |
| 27 | In the case of Foresterhill , all the main clinical departments have given their support to the proposal — a proposal that has been drawn up by a multidisciplinary team . |
| 28 | The six-volume report was drawn up by a Royal Commission established in 1990 by the state 's Premier , Carmen Lawrence , in response to increasing public anger over improper dealings between the ALP state government and local entrepreneurs . |
| 29 | It also recommended that children whose needs could not be met within the resources of the ordinary school should have a record ( which came to be called a ‘ statement ’ ) of their special educational needs drawn up by a multi-professional team . |
| 30 | Having approved the new constitution , which had been drawn up by a nine-member Constitutional Recommendation Committee , the King turned the document over to the Council of Ministers , which had been invested with legislative powers in mid-May [ see p. 37453 ] . |