Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands .
2 Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths .
3 Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths .
4 Patients , to Aline , were fascinating mental problems to be picked up each time one walked on duty and put down directly one walked out of the ward .
5 The list for the Labour Group will be made up each Friday morning and passed to Jean Speedie by lunchtime .
6 An extra £5 million would be brought forward from next year to offset the extra cost , but it would not be made up next year .
7 Chairman Alan Noble said a short-list would be drawn up this week .
8 A short list will be drawn up next week .
9 You can access a pop-up calculator , a notepad facility that can be called up each time you execute the program and , from a reviewers point of view the most appealing , you can access the manual at any time during the running of the program .
10 Instead of this line , which involved the construction of a tunnel , 48 chains long , under the rising ground near Foxton , into the Welland Valley , Barnes recommended boldly that the canal should be raised up six locks immediately , a sharp climb of 75 feet .
11 And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it .
12 Oi , imagine living in one of those houses there you 'd be woken up all night by ambulances sw blaring away !
13 I , you know , usually for the hundred tonight I meant to be served up one packet and that means Wednesday buying
14 The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ .
15 ‘ The horses do n't need to be lined up military fashion waiting for the cavalry charge , ’ added Mr Green , who has seen every National live since 1946 .
16 I did n't have to think ‘ Well , if I put that dress on I 'll only get it dirty because the baby will be sick over me ’ — to be dressed up all day and feel you can be clean and only have nice jobs to do and always be with people …
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