Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 2 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 … . |
| 4 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 5 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 6 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 7 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 8 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 9 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 10 | While I am tucked up by my warm fire being waited on hand and foot , you will be out in your cars touring the streets with nowhere to go , wishing in vain for a lovely girl to console you and end your loneliness . |
| 11 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 12 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 13 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 14 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 15 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 16 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |
| 17 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 18 | Women take baskets which are filled up with coals according to their strength , & sometimes 2 men had to lift it onto their backs . |
| 19 | So , I think possibly a little more thought in the actual , I think the actual shape of the girl there , the way she 's actually sitting is fine , but er it , it looks as if she 's been propped up with , you know , you better put this stool under your foot to hold that up and put this crutch under your arm to hold that up and |
| 20 | The home-help walked down the road towards Marie , wheeling her bike which had been propped up against the curb . |
| 21 | Homes with large impersonal reception areas are better for orientation if they are broken up into smaller areas divided from each other . |
| 22 | Inside the mass spectrometer , the beam can be directed towards a target where the ions are broken up into their constituent parts , whose individual masses are also measured . |
| 23 | Instead of one side doing all their batting in one go and setting a target for the other side to beat , baseball 's innings are broken up into bits , with each side batting in turn until nine innings have been completed . |
| 24 | Once there , they are broken up by ultraviolet radiation , releasing chlorine atoms which destroy ozone , CFCs are also an important greenhouse gas ( see above ) . |
| 25 | Today most of these assemblages are broken up by human activity but , for example , on the great plains of Serengeti in East Africa the relationships between seasonal vegetation , nomadic herbivores , and dependent beasts of prey can still be discerned and studied in detail . |
| 26 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 27 | The recessed planes are used in places , but more often they are broken up by bold three-quarterings and massings which give a quite different sense of the third dimension . |
| 28 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 29 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 30 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |