Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 2 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The other end of the rainbow was presumably curled up inside the cloud . |
| 5 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 6 | Milton 's maintenance of the traditional Renaissance literary values of art , imitation , and exercise allowed him to be appropriated by a culturally elitist agenda indivisibly caught up with an elitist social and political agenda . |
| 7 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 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 the effects of cold . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With the genre scenes , part of the secret lies again in the way natural-sounding dialogue is skilfully caught up into a formal musical structure . |
| 11 | The ferocious ‘ Wally ’ Fuentes Morrison only joined up after the 1973 coup . |
| 12 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 13 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 14 | One of them died soon afterwards ; and the other one — I saw it myself-was so bad and its head so swollen up with the stings that it had to be supported in its stable by a kind of sling fixed to the roof . ’ |
| 15 | Unprecedented anti-government street demonstrations in Tirana on July 1 were brutally broken up by the security forces , and the next day four Albanians fled to the West German embassy , to be joined by 3,200 others in the course of the following week . |
| 16 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 17 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 18 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |
| 19 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 20 | Morale only picked up after the restart at the beginning of a 70-mile , three-day run and walk up and over Mount Chirripo . |
| 21 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 22 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 23 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 24 | Actually they 're all er they are , nearly all of them have been broken so they 've obviously caught up with the list from the . |
| 25 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 26 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 27 | There was a seriously dangerous note in his voice now , Cassie thought , so caught up in the play that she hardly realized that she was part of the script and it was she whom Johnny was talking about . |
| 28 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 29 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 30 | 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 . |