Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile state-owned energy monopolies have come up with their own solution to generating more electricity without angering local environmentalists : moving their power stations to Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | That was what his sharp intelligence had picked up from their first meeting . |
| 3 | We counted 17 dead hinds in the wood , most still curled up in their last sleep , dead from cold and wet , exhaustion and starvation . |
| 4 | Actors are very emotional people who get caught up in their own make-believe — I would n't trust an actor at all ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ These people tend to take advantage of the trust they have built up with their official hat on . |
| 6 | Budgets should be built up from their fundamental components ; for example , four staff at £20000 per annum gives staff costs of £80000 . |
| 7 | Libraries in general have an image of unparticularized worthiness and sobriety , and many young librarians have an admirable messianic zeal about them , a firm belief that what their library has is good for people and that membership lists and issue figures must be pushed up for their own sake . |
| 8 | After spending a month in that city , he was persuaded to return to Kidderminster for a while , but he found the ‘ drunken rabble greatly stirred up by their royalist masters ’ . |
| 9 | Is it any wonder that I now plead with my right hon. and learned Friend to intervene on behalf of pupils and parents who wish to move their children over the border to Staffordshire because they are fed up with their own high-spending council and they want that council to take responsibility ? |
| 10 | The children met up with their new foster parents , Bill and Janet Matthews . |
| 11 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 12 | Saw faces that half an hour before had been puffed up with their own infallibility deflated by doubt . |
| 13 | But many of the 14-year-old pupils had to sit tests drawn up by their own teachers who are boycotting the controversial national tests . |
| 14 | But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter . |
| 15 | They are far too wrapped up in their own small struggles to worry overmuch about what others are doing and why . |
| 16 | Most people are too wrapped up in their own lives to be bothered that other people 's freedoms and rights are being infringed , until it happens to them , and then it 's too late . ’ |
| 17 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 18 | In these respects , it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification . |
| 19 | For the first time for a long while , Corbett felt wanted and warmed to these simple yet sophisticated men so bound up in their own routine of prayer , work and study that they regarded any visitor as a visible sign of God 's grace . |
| 20 | Lit up in their various colours against a white wall they can look spectacular ; unlit they take on an almost sculptural quality . |
| 21 | cuddled up with their subsequent ladies , |
| 22 | These firms had either splintered off from American companies — as in the case of Norman Broadbent — or they had been set up on their own from scratch , in a variety of forms such as MSL , EAL , Tyzack , Alexander Hughes , Goddard Kay Rogers , John Stork , Merton and Whitehead Mann , to name but a few . |
| 23 | Named after Argentinian Independence Day , the group have attracted most attention for their confrontational political stance , most pertinently summed up on their recent mail order-only single and the LP 's strongest track , ‘ Fuck The Right To Vote ’ . |
| 24 | By adopting this ‘ historical ’ approach , misunderstandings can be traced back to their origins , and then linked and brought up to their current situation . |
| 25 | Tanzanians were brought up with their own musical , dance and oral traditions but at school or college were taught the language , culture and even the history of the colonial power . |
| 26 | ‘ They should make it clear that corporal punishment is outmoded and that children have a right to be brought up in their own religion . |
| 27 | Ray and her sister were baptized Catholics , but after their mother 's elopement in 1891 with Bernhard Berenson , the art critic , they were brought up by their Quaker grandmother , Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith . |
| 28 | A book about the children of the war , displaced children , children who had not been brought up by their natural parents or in their home countries . |
| 29 | Valley Parade 's answer to the dream team never linked up during their playing days — Pearson had moved on from Manchester United to West Ham before Stapleton , Ireland 's most capped player , joined the Old Trafford side in the early eighties . |
| 30 | You will also have the chance to provide informal activities which could be anything from putting on a record or cassette for some listening or dancing , to reading aloud , or getting someone fixed up with their portable stereo or a good romance to read . |