Example sentences of "and [vb pp] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patients studied were seen and treated up to 3 hours from the onset of symptoms . |
| 2 | absolutely but that is n't quite the same as actually having been taken up and developed up to ninety six . |
| 3 | The hurricane-lamp was placed about twenty feet in front and pumped up to maximum brilliance while we lay sweating and mosquito-bitten in the shadows , fingering our cameras and the trigger of our temperamental Sun Gun , expecting that at any moment a curious snake would be drawn to the light from the shadows behind us , rather than from the cave ahead . |
| 4 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 5 | The campanile , the famous leaning tower , is cylindrical , 52 feet in diameter and , like the cathedral , is marble faced and arcaded up to six storeys . |
| 6 | The agreement , signed in Rome and drawn up with Italian mediation , established the principles of the country 's future electoral system as well as enshrining the freedom of the press and access to the media , and of association , expression and movement . |
| 7 | The report , commissioned by the Office parlementaire d'Évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques , and drawn up by socialist deputy Christian Bataille , has called for its replacement by a reconstituted agency which would operate more openly . |
| 8 | The 1834 breed standards set by the Royal Jersey Agricultural Society and drawn up by distinguished island breeders showed parti-coloured engravings of the breed but made no reference to the colour of the coat as no importance was attached to such a superficial factor ; however , the light-coloured muzzle ring was specified , and a deep orange colour within the ears , while the skin was of a ‘ good ’ colour . |
| 9 | In the evening I get supper and we 've eaten and washed up by eight . |
| 10 | How he had been named Ish-kay-nay and brought up by these Chiricahuas and made the son of Sonsichay , one of the sub-chiefs of the band . |
| 11 | Cos that 's where my father was born and brought up in that old house . |
| 12 | ‘ They are born and brought up in this country and subject to peer group pressure from the dominant culture in the 16–24 age group . ’ |
| 13 | This raises questions regarding the extent to which the standardised scores provide a useful basis of comparison for children born and brought up in this country . |
| 14 | I was born and brought up in this town and I thought and hoped my future was here . |
| 15 | Bouchard 's studies of identical twins separated at birth and brought up in different countries , classes and cultures , showed that they still shared similarities in actions and habits despite separation . |
| 16 | , Nicholas ( c. 1355–1424 ) , royal servant and bishop , was born in Menthorpe , East Riding of Yorkshire , and brought up in nearby Bubwith . |
| 17 | Though Coleridge continued at the King 's School for several months , delighting his mother by pointing out the new master 's faulty knowledge of grammar , in April 1782 Francis Buller , a family friend and later an eminent judge , obtained for him a presentation to Christ 's Hospital in London ( the Blue Coat School ) , ‘ there to be educated , and brought up among other poor children ’ . |
| 18 | But Cecil , putting his prestige on the line , and buoyed up by favourable results in a number of local newspaper polls , persuaded them to go ahead . |
| 19 | Camping in tents and cooped up in those magnificent mobile ovens , the crews were understandably as short on fuse as they were long on indestructibility and tantrums were as common as stones through the windscreen , the motley band continued their unsung way across the tropic of Cancer while those celebrated and sponsored Paris-Dakar counterparts roared along to the west . |
| 20 | ‘ Sexuality ’ has in many ways been most resistant to this challenge , precisely because its power seems to derive from our biological being , but there have recently been several sustained challenges to sexual essentialism , from quite different theoretical approaches : the interactionist ( associated particularly with the work of Gagnon and Simon , and in Britain Kenneth Plummer ) ; the psychoanalytic ( associated with the reinterpretation of Freud initiated by Jacques Lacan , and taken up by feminist writers such as Juliet Mitchell ) ; and the discursive , taking as its starting point the work of Michel Foucault . |
| 21 | It 's too easy , I think , to assume that women are n't aggressive and are sensitive and men are more aggressive and less sensitive because that 's the way society has wanted them to be in the past and children have grown up and lived up to those stereotypes , so I do n't think we can actually say yet that women can offer anything distinctive until we 've given them the chance to be themselves really . |
| 22 | When I when I first got to know the flats , certainly after the the incident of a of an elderly lady being erm being mugged and beaten up by some some kids up there . |