Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will divert forests from disputed uplands where foresters are frequently held up or defeated in long battles with environment groups . |
| 2 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 3 | Everywhere the capricious darting hand of Grace had lighted on the fallen , the ordinary , and they had been briefly lit up and magnified in that illumination . |
| 4 | Although projects for the reform of the courts were being drawn up and had in some cases been completed , " the date of their publication can not yet be predicted with any certainty " . |
| 5 | Nicolette 's fusion of banging bass and meandering , torchy vocals — spiced with American blues and African music influences — has been impressing people since she was signed by north London 's Shut Up And Dance in 1990 . |
| 6 | It is therefore unwise to allow grass to grow up and mature in late summer . |
| 7 | As the son of noble parents , Rodrigo was brought up and trained in knightly pursuits at the court of Prince Sancho , eldest son of King Ferdinand of Castile and Leon . |
| 8 | Which ‘ here today , gone tomorrow politician ’ got up and went in 1982 ? |
| 9 | To solve the problem , either all the parties must co-operate after the dispute has arisen , which is inherently unlikely , or special clauses for the multi-party arrangements must have been drawn up and incorporated in each of the original contracts . |
| 10 | then they 'd be taken up and put in that |
| 11 | then they 'd be taken up and put in that |
| 12 | Plateosaurus was a well-known herbivore , occasionally rearing up and sprinting in short bursts on its hind legs , its momentum aided by its long tail . |
| 13 | Would you propose that the Supplement text is marked up and ordered in correct alphabetic position prior to capture ? |
| 14 | Hewlett-Packard is contracted to have the system up and running in six months . |
| 15 | Hewlett-Packard is contracted to have the system up and running in six months . |
| 16 | A unit should be up and running in three to six months with sales of $1m forecast for the first year . |
| 17 | If the developers succeed in winning over Environment department inspector , Roy Foster , they plan to be up and running in three years . |
| 18 | In hospital , each patient has a care plan which is drawn up and discussed in great detail with the person and the nursing staff . |
| 19 | People brought up and educated in different decades hold different social values and attitudes . |
| 20 | The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art produced his Shut up and Sing in 1960 and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , where he was music director from 1963 to 1973 , produced his Excuse Me for Living in 1964 . |
| 21 | And erm the I , I ca n't remember er oh I think most of the work up there that I was on , we were doing different jobs in the mill , like er when very too when the mills were closed at the holidays , we , we used to go up and work in some of the mills . |
| 22 | Under the law of a number of member states ( though not the UK ) , transfer of central management and control from the state of registration is only possible if the company is wound up and reincorporated in another member state . |
| 23 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 24 | It was a groan of hunger , as she writhed in a sudden welter of dumb shyness as his lips and fingers sought intimate places which seemed to scream out to be covered up and left in decent privacy … |
| 25 | Once all work on the system has been completed , then the ground must be tidied up and left in such a state that it is easy to assess at a later date what rabbits have been left behind . |
| 26 | These issues are taken up and considered in more detail in Part 3 . |