Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 2 | Whales and seals that are washed up dead on our coasts have nothing to do with pollution . |
| 3 | Anything was better than being cheered up some more . |
| 4 | Israel is thrilled at the pace of absorption , and accuses the Arab world of manufacturing false conflict and fear ; a conflict that is whipping up greater hostility among two peoples who claim the same land . |
| 5 | To decide what the company should be like in five years time may not solve a crisis that is looming up next month . |
| 6 | And Lenin , who had talked only at party meetings , before audiences of Marxist students , who had hardly appeared in public in 1905 , now spoke to them with a voice of authority that was to pick up all their undirected energy , to command their uncertain confidence , and to swell suddenly to a world-wide resonance . |
| 7 | He carried on presenting dancers in an amateur capacity , but it was an activity that was taking up more time than he could afford . |
| 8 | ‘ The body that was washed up this morning : I am interested in it . |
| 9 | In Witney we 've got a big industrial estate and on the top of a forty foot pole there is a siren that was put up four years ago . |
| 10 | Because lenders will not go beyond 95% loans , the cost of indemnity insurance can no longer be added to the mortgage and is collected up front . |
| 11 | Finally , he rang his bell and was pulled up unharmed to the surface , where he delivered the emperor 's words to his master . |
| 12 | ‘ We were doing some vocals and Damon ( Albarn ) was in one of his mad moods and was climbing up one of the acoustic screens they had in the studio . |
| 13 | It 's a very interesting phrase and was thought up four thousand years ago . |
| 14 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
| 15 | In addition to the Revolutionary Armed Forces , Castro was sufficiently confident of support by late 1959 to organise the formation of popular militias , and was stirring up patriotic fervour by repeated assertions of the imminence of US military action against Cuba . |
| 16 | He started to swim , but was picked up 50 minutes later and returned to land and hospital . |