Example sentences of "up and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |
| 2 | I wrote a letter to The Times about this lunacy , and it was picked up and ridiculed by all the national papers . |
| 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 | Such ventures never formed more than a significant minority of the total number of clubs , most of which were based on street or neighbourhood groups set up and run by ordinary working people . |
| 5 | The fabric he is shifting will be taken to one of the many ateliers in Paris to be cut up and sewn into ready-to-wear , middle-market fashion . |
| 6 | Being bundled up and escorted from old peoples home to movie premiere , from infant school to racecourse , from hospital to Cup final . |
| 7 | ‘ … and you kept your mouth shut but you were beaten up and threatened with worse . |
| 8 | Harris asked the Ambassador whether he had received any letters from Amnesty members concerning Guatemalan street children ( who are routinely rounded up and beaten by that country 's security forces ) . |
| 9 | By the end of 1910 , complete plans for a standard ambulance train had been drawn up and sent to all the main companies , all of whom agreed to supply one or more in the event of war , to the Wolverton Works specification . |
| 10 | In Russia the children will be split up and sent to different orphanges . |
| 11 | In Russia the children will be split up and sent to different orphanges . |
| 12 | Such views are often picked up and repeated by non-finance specialists ( e.g. Hill , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In recent years , however , the Public Trustee has only had a small and declining proportion of the total work of trusteeship and executorship ( see p. 114 ) , and in 1972 a Committee of Enquiry recommended that no new work should be taken on , and that the office be wound up and merged with that of the Official Solicitor . |
| 15 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 16 | The World Cup will inevitably become not a sporting event , but a completely commercial package — no longer the peasant game , but sanitised , trussed up and priced for corporate consumption . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Julia stayed the rest of the day in bed , got up and bathed at six , dressed carefully in a green shirt and black jeans , and then walked slowly down to the town . |
| 19 | Would you propose that the Supplement text is marked up and ordered in correct alphabetic position prior to capture ? |
| 20 | The simple task devised by Kinsbourne and Cook ( 1971 ) was subsequently taken up and modified by other investigations . |
| 21 | The local technical university is a useful source ; so is the Penang Skills Development Centre , set up and financed by local multinationals . |
| 22 | We are all linked up and committed to two missionary families , the Collicts and the Meikles . |
| 23 | In hospital , each patient has a care plan which is drawn up and discussed in great detail with the person and the nursing staff . |
| 24 | These are cooperative credit societies set up and controlled by local people from a defined geographical area . |
| 25 | Neither was sure if one of us would be going home or if we 'd be split up and put with other hostages as had happened before with the Yanks and the Frenchmen . |
| 26 | My idea of prison was that it was somewhere where you were locked up and picked on all the time — that was my impression . |
| 27 | A young reader with limited reading skill may be encouraged in his or her labour by finding the otherwise relentless block of print broken up and relieved with readily-understood pictures . |
| 28 | People brought up and educated in different decades hold different social values and attitudes . |
| 29 | Neil , beaten up and tortured with lighted cigarettes when he refused to go shoplifting , was last night reunited with his sister Claire , nine , and six-year-old brother Daniel . |
| 30 | If her answers were unsatisfactory , their report would be taken to a magistrates ' court the next morning and a petition for her " reception order " drawn up and signed by two people — preferably near relatives or representatives of the family . |