Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 2 | No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights . |
| 3 | A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry . |
| 4 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 5 | Speed of access may also be worse , as the links between relations are set up at run time and not at data definition time . |
| 6 | But that 's just because of the way she knows Nigerian boys are brought up at home . |
| 7 | ‘ Because I 'm here , Shelley , when I ought to be tucked up at home . |
| 8 | Normally , Sodium Hydroxide — Caustic Soda ( N a OH ) — solution is used as a developing agent , and this can easily be made up at home . |
| 9 | It permits homes to be locked up at night , although it states : ‘ On no account should children be locked into their bedrooms at night whatever their age and competence . ’ |
| 10 | Can attitudes and dispositions be summoned up at will ? |
| 11 | What this early artist has illustrated is mobbing behaviour being exploited to trap small birds , which would have been destined to be served up at table . |
| 12 | Well , that 's the quickest way to do it , we used to hang one below the other on the dredger , be put up at sunset and we used to take 'em down early in the morning , but you always had , you always had erm navigation lights up , must |
| 13 | While I 'm on a journey I 'm always looking for cones and sometimes I 'm fortunate enough to be held up at traffic works . |
| 14 | One in which , on a single day , he could have been rounded up at bayonet-point or celebrated a cigarette . |
| 15 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 16 | One of the most interesting new schemes to be put forward is the Jobclubs which are now being set up at Job Centres . |
| 17 | A woman who is happy in her job and hates being cooped up at home all day win bring back positive qualities to the household , but on the other hand the strains and stresses of work can also leave their mark on family life . |
| 18 | She says she hated being cooped up at home , concocting his favourite tuna fish salad . |
| 19 | Some of the asylum seekers are now being put up at bed and breakfast hotels in Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare . |
| 20 | Within a week of the inquiry Chapman 's former stars were snapped up at bargain prices totalling £ 10,150 , the highest fee , £1,250 , being paid by Notts County for McCleod . |
| 21 | Like Mr Thompson they were held up at gunpoint by two men near their hotel . |
| 22 | Too frequently I have made the mistake of buying fresh food once a week and either running out of organisational steam halfway through the week , so all the meals I had planned to cook have fallen by the wayside , or being held up at work or in some other way and grabbing fish and chips on the way home instead . |
| 23 | I start to apologize for being held up at work . |
| 24 | HEART-THROB singer Richard Marx was left shaking with fear after being held up at gunpoint by Chinese gangsters . |
| 25 | A car salesman is recovering after being held up at gunpoint by a man posing as a customer . |
| 26 | John is tucked up at home : they want to talk about him . |
| 27 | Do n't be a Chocolate Teapot , melting away when the heat 's turned up at school ; stand up for God and know that he loves you enough to help you through each day , however hot it gets . |
| 28 | STRAPPING LAD : Wigmore is tied up at work , wearing a harness |
| 29 | FOOTBALL hero Paul Gascoigne 's dirty underwear has been snapped up at auction . |
| 30 | A petrol station assistant and her friend have been held up at knifepoint . |