Example sentences of "tied [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shafts can be tied on in the case of very young children , especially during active play . |
| 2 | He feared the goats only marginally less than the snorting , grinning pigs , and only then because the five nannies and their billy were usually safely tied up in the long grass . |
| 3 | The Great Bane was tied up in the yard . |
| 4 | It 's all tied up in the shops . ’ |
| 5 | This will tell you how much ‘ dead money ’ is tied up in the three products . |
| 6 | The ponies were tied up in the shade to the branches of a row of gum trees which divided the two pitches . |
| 7 | He had come from a bulk tanker that had tied up in the oil terminal in Kuwait harbour , thanked the Master who had allowed him to work his passage from the port of Perth , and gone ashore . |
| 8 | The big bucks are tied up in the options on 500,000 shares of IBM stock he gets to exercise . |
| 9 | ‘ If Elinor is unable to live in Saracen , the trustees might consider it an unjustifiable expense : apart from the income that might be generated by the capital that 's tied up in the place , keeping five full-time domestic staff members and three secretaries would no longer be viable . |
| 10 | Community mental health care does imply the closure of the large , asylum style psychiatric hospitals , not least because many of the resources for new services are tied up in the old institutions . |
| 11 | We 'll have Anne tied up in the libraries for two or three days going through the periodical indexes , that 'll be another hundred plus whatever the xerox charges are . ’ |
| 12 | But of course Joan 's tied up in the Hundred Years War , and Frank 's got involved in some great animal epic . |
| 13 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 14 | She did n't feel she could bother Mike with the problem either ; he might be team manager , but like everyone else his thoughts were closely tied up in the cars and their drivers . |
| 15 | ‘ And with his money tied up in the land he lacked the extra cash necessary to turn it into a paying proposition . ’ |
| 16 | They included cutting the amount of gold tied up in the refining circuit , reducing batches of work in progress in colours and a new costing system to enable product rationalisation in Jewellery . |
| 17 | You 've got , I think you got lost and the reason why you , you were getting yourself erm tied up in the figures and why there was less eye contact was because you were getting a little bit lost with those figures at the top of the page . |
| 18 | He was tied up in the garden but was put in a pen at night . |
| 19 | Housing was the first of the public sector programmes to be tied back in the 1960s . |