Example sentences of "up [conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway .
2 These were quickly taken up and written about in the British context ( e.g. Thomas et al. ,
3 From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions .
4 To summarize , the organic compounds found in cells are built up and broken down by enzymes .
5 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 .
6 absolutely but that is n't quite the same as actually having been taken up and developed up to ninety six .
7 The keeper got up and minced out of the room .
8 By mid-season Lotus had given up and gone back to the 72 .
9 He breathed the air deeply , hauling it into his broad chest as if this particular air on this exact spot could be stored up and carried around as a reserve and reminder : for minutes on end he stood there , resisting any move which would lift the spell , gazing into the hidden valley as if in there lay the treasure he wanted .
10 The solution is to step outside the argument for a moment and attempt to change its direction instead of getting caught up and caught out by arguing on their terms .
11 But not so long ago they were actually sails and had to be put up and taken down like the sails of a ship .
12 The two men combed the moors , squelching through the soggy ground until they were satisfied that all the sheep had been rounded up and brought down to the lower pastures to safety .
13 The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van .
14 Between two people one poncho was used as a groundsheet and the other was strung up and pinned down with home-made pegs .
15 Had he woken up and looked out of one of the bedroom windows he would have seen his wife in the moonlight pulling desperately at the handle on a manhole cover .
16 Hood : a generous hood which unfortunately bunched up when pulled in by the drawcord .
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