Example sentences of "be so [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I am so cooped up . |
| 2 | When I drive off , I am so churned up inside that I find myself hoping I sha n't make things worse by having a coronary on the way to work . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But transfer fees are so blown up for British players that managers are now forced to look abroad . |
| 4 | German housewives are so fed up with their lives their 4,000-strong union is going on strike . |
| 5 | A bat is a machine , whose internal electronics are so wired up that its wing muscles cause it to home in on insects , as an unconscious guided missile homes in on an aeroplane . |
| 6 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 7 | When they are so wrapped up in themselves and their problems , and , they are so hard done by ? |
| 8 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 9 | You are so wrapped up in yourself . |
| 10 | I did n't know , thought it had been so built up . |
| 11 | If he had n't been so puffed up with conceit , the buffalo that had not been noticed by the Moi might now be basking contentedly in the shallows of the river . |
| 12 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 13 | I will because Mr Mayor I think that councillor started off his response to this by talking about ghettos and a lot of differences between the better off and the worst off and I , the feeling I got from his speech was that what he was actually driving at was he was attempting to perpetuate the class distinction that the Labour party have been so bound up with over the years . |
| 14 | Seldom has a team been so fired up prior to a major match , due largely to the pompous comments of Tipperary manager Babs Keating , who should have known better . |
| 15 | Only everything 's been so buggered up today in general … , ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Jack 's been so cut up about poor Charlie . |
| 18 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 19 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |
| 20 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |
| 21 | Coffin wished he had observed Edward Pitt more closely on that evening , but he had been so taken up with Letty . |
| 22 | He stood with his hands in his pockets and she realised she had been so taken up with her seemingly childish pursuit that she had not even heard the car arrive . |
| 23 | Kate had been so taken up with her own affairs that she 'd rather forgotten Ace 's part in the drama . |
| 24 | I think they had both been so wrapped up in themselves they had quite forgotten my existence . |
| 25 | So if you hate the theory so much , how come you 're so boned up on it ? |
| 26 | You 're so blocked up . |
| 27 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 28 | Maybe you do — you 're so wrapped up in your rotten selfishness that you ca n't see anyone else . ’ |
| 29 | Do n't be so puffed up with your own perfections as to imagine that because other people allow themselves liberties you can not take , therefore they must be wicked . |
| 30 | Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on . |