Example sentences of "[vb pp] up by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was once rung up by the great Frank Sinatra himself . |
| 2 | When it was vacated no steps were taken to have it boarded up by the local authority . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Any ferret can carry the transmitting device that provides the signal to be picked up by the hand-held locator . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The save_set will then be picked up by the next incremental backup . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Both are liable to be wound up by the English court . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 21 | And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling . |
| 22 | My work-rate was speeded up by the further drops of rain that fell on me . |
| 23 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 24 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He got phoned up by the other players ? |
| 27 | There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project . |
| 28 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 29 | The expectation was that the losses sustained by the low cover price would be more than made up by the larger circulation and by advertising . |
| 30 | The co-ordinator , Thijs Kuiken , said that the inadequacy of present knowledge had been shown up by the 1989 viral epidemic which killed thousands of seals . |