Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
2 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |
3 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
4 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
5 | The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems . |
6 | Both of these are therefore reflected in the file as being attributes of the assembly and so are rolled up into the next hierarchical level . |
7 | Plans cater for both an immediate accident and the long-term care of individuals who survive or are caught up in the disaster — including the rescuers . |
8 | For many Christian people who are caught up in the whirlpool of grief , the most difficult part may well be their realization that they are in fact feeling very distressed . |
9 | We pray for those who are caught up in the human side of the conflict ; for those in camps , held as hostage , deprived of their homes , taken away from their work . |
10 | Shades of the Mediterranean are conjured up by the aquas and terracottas from Oneworld Trading 's accessories . |
11 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
12 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
13 | Enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a unique advantage over private-sector competitors : they can keep all their profits , but their losses are picked up by the taxpayer . |
14 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
15 | Five talented misfits from Camden form a band playing the most ridiculed form of music in the world , are picked up by the chief of the record label that brought you the Manic Street Preachers — and ZAP ! country is sincerely rehabilitated . |
16 | Do n't riffle through papers , kick the table or drum fingers — all are sounds which are picked up by the microphone and have to be edited out . |
17 | The purples are echoed in the colour wash on the wall and the oranges are picked up in the flowers . |
18 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
19 | By contrast , death and decay are speeded up in the equally characteristic Peter Greenaway film , A Zed and Two Noughts ( 1985 ) , set mainly in a zoo . |
20 | Major fisheries — those for cod of the North Sea , the anchoveta of the Eastern Pacific — occur in areas where , for various reasons , nutrients are stirred up from the bottom and the plankton can thrive . |
21 | By nightfall I am fed up with the search and determined to leave tomorrow for at least one day on Drangajökull . |
22 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
23 | I am fed up with the power of the normally aspirated diesel engine in my ‘ 84 Ninety . |
24 | I AM fed up with the media blasting Kenya 's tourist industry . |
25 | Smaller practitioners are fed up to the back teeth with all forms of regulation , and audit regulation in particular . |
26 | ‘ People are fed up of the mayhem and death wreaked by young criminals . |
27 | Lots of people are fed up with the way their lives are headed but they do n't often take the trouble to do anything about it . |
28 | ‘ You 'd be amazed how many people live in this region because they are fed up with the rat-race , ’ he says . |
29 | The Consumers ' Assocation said : ‘ People are fed up with the banks ' incompetence , compounded by arrogance . ’ |
30 | BORED kids are fed up with the long summer holiday and ca n't wait to go back to school , according to a new survey . |