Example sentences of "[verb] up by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was once rung up by the great Frank Sinatra himself . |
| 2 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 3 | When it was vacated no steps were taken to have it boarded up by the local authority . |
| 4 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 5 | He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s . |
| 6 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |
| 7 | It stands in splendid isolation near the moorland road to Bowes and it was there that merchants and farmers would leave butter eggs and other foodstuffs to be picked up by the afflicted . |
| 8 | This philosophy of helping elderly people return to or stay in their own or small-scale homes will be picked up by the new centres . |
| 9 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 10 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 11 | The various whirrings and whinings which may be emitted by the camcorder itself , not to mention any noises which you make while operating the controls , are liable to be faithfully picked up by the on-board microphone . |
| 12 | Already re-invented by top international designers , the short skirt will undoubtedly be picked up by the high street stores , and once again start to look new . |
| 13 | Already re-invented by top international designers , the short skirt will undoubtedly be picked up by the high street stores , and once again start to look new . |
| 14 | Any ferret can carry the transmitting device that provides the signal to be picked up by the hand-held locator . |
| 15 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 18 | Although the ex the special allowance was actually withdrawn , but nevertheless , the responsibility for generally dealing with it , was picked up by the local authority . |
| 19 | The weapons will start to arrive in December ; they are supposed to match the arms build up by the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Both are liable to be wound up by the English court . |
| 22 | Hambros Jersey 's contention , if correct , would mean that the jurisdiction of the English court under the sections would be much more restricted than the circumstances in which an individual may be adjudged bankrupt or a company may be wound up by the English court . |
| 23 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 24 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |
| 25 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 26 | Seaweed floats loosely around in a sea churned up by the stormy waters . |
| 27 | Spinrad says that such a huge range in velocity is quite unexpected It could be stirred up by the central jets which produce the radio emission . |
| 28 | The People 's Militia has been busy ripping down posters put up by the Civic Forum in factories and elsewhere . |
| 29 | The People 's Militia has indeed been busy ripping down posters put up by the Civic Forum in factories and elsewhere . |
| 30 | He got phoned up by the other players ? |