Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it rains they huddle against the building , leave the objects on blankets or broken up cardboard boxes , only to return to selling when the rain stops . |
| 2 | Er because neither of us could really manage in the kitchen it was not long before we became very tired of having to eat convenience food sad looking old meat pies , dried out chips and heated up frozen vegetables soon palled . |
| 3 | Such progressions were termed ‘ job ladders ’ , and economists describe the way in which people are selected and promoted up these ladders as internal labour markets . |
| 4 | The law of vortical movement in primordial matter is one of the oldest conceptions of Greek-philosophers , whose great minds were all nourished by the arcane Vedic wisdom and taken up 2000 years later by Copernicus , Galileo , Descartes and Swedenborg . |
| 5 | Kealey alleged that government ministers had operated a sophisticated system of " kickbacks " , gifts of money in return for the awarding of public contracts , and that the RCMP had known about and covered up such bribes . |