Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ways such as these , late Roman bishops worked slowly , by piecemeal additions and elaborations of regularly recurrent observances , to define a new sacred time in which the Christian life was to be wholly caught up , until the sacred time of the old pagan past was slowly forgotten , or emptied of its charge of religiosity . |
| 2 | Environmental improvement would mean the closure of some labour intensive plants which could not be economically cleaned up , the company said . |
| 3 | Many different groups are involved in the pollination of modern angiosperms and , in rain forest , this seems to be rather bound up with the level in the forest at which the flowers are presented . |
| 4 | to be laughingly bundled up to the template , |
| 5 | Fishbane 's bedroom is somewhat out of the way and near the lift , so that the ladies can be discreetly smuggled up there by Ramsbum . |
| 6 | During fitting out , provision was made for the whole floor ( which includes What Personal Computer 's sister titles — PC User and Which Computer ? ) to be properly cabled up , ready to be networked . |
| 7 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 8 | Large leaves may need support from a cane or , in the case of ficus , can be gently rolled up with an elastic band . |
| 9 | She should be all grown up . |
| 10 | ‘ And next year we 'll be all grown up , with lots of nominations and winners . |
| 11 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 12 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 13 | Once or twice they 'd had to sleep down there , though not often because Gloria said it was n't nice to be all pressed up against people you did n't know . |
| 14 | Your dad 'll be all jacked up . " |
| 15 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 16 | ‘ We are ’ he said later , ‘ in danger of building so many mills and factories on the river 's bank … that the stream will be all used up and its bed dry . ’ |
| 17 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 18 | They would n't know that his trip had been sponsored by the Socialist Labor Party of North America and his time , if he stuck to his commitments , was to be all booked up . |
| 19 | She 'll be all prettied up and ready to go two hours from now . |
| 20 | Any complaints from tenants will be swiftly followed up within one working day where possible . |
| 21 | You need not be constantly totting up calories for everything that you eat ( unless you want to of course ) , but do bear in mind the high calorie value of fat and keep it to a minimum . |
| 22 | From the steelworks stage of this section of work Wimpey adopted the use of power operated platforms to eliminate the need for men to be constantly climbing up and down ladders . |
| 23 | The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery . |
| 24 | The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Probably she 'll be so wrapped up in it she 'll feel differently . ’ |
| 28 | But I find it hard to accept that all our land should be so buttoned up , and that we should allow ourselves the arrogant and indulgent belief — against every lesson in history — that we can run things better than nature . |
| 29 | Therefore , DEC has sold very few machines in anticipation of the new range , but sales and marketing activities will be greatly stepped up when it arrives . |
| 30 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |