Example sentences of "up [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least 33 shows have been cancelled and the music hall will be boarded up for good within three months , Palladium officials said . |
| 2 | I 'm given up for dead by now , I 'm accepted for dead . |
| 3 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 4 | Er no Cos it 's up like patterned on the on like , two walls and then we 've got like like a balloon different balloon erm wallpaper |
| 5 | Richard Ryder , the chief whip , had brought along ministerial colleagues and , through 10 weeks of appalling economic news , the Tory Party had kept up with Labour in the opinion polls . |
| 6 | Pisco sour proved to be a local brandy whisked up with white of egg and the juice of fresh limes with a few drops of angostura bitters lying like dark bloodstains on the white bed of foam . |
| 7 | For printers with no input-output slots such as the LaserJet IIIP , Hewlett-Packard has come up with JetDirect EX boards . |
| 8 | The hungry sheep seem to look up in vain to their religious leaders and , if this was the whole reality , it is surprising that the Reformation did not happen a good deal earlier . |
| 9 | Salt water is pumped up from deep below the ground . |
| 10 | Sure enough , undisturbed by a slow early gallop , Remittance Man 's jumping warmed up from good to brilliant . |
| 11 | It is quite justifiable therefore to picture polymers as made up from stiff by flexible chains freely sliding among their neighbours and constrained only by cross-links or entanglements — unless , of course , strong lateral forces also exist , such as the hydrogen bonds in polypeptides or polyamides , which tend to hold neighbouring chains together . |
| 12 | I eventually ended up on Live From The Palladium as one of comedy 's bright young hopes . ’ |
| 13 | Now news of live football coming up on Central in the new season . |
| 14 | From the middle they could see , by the limited and spherical aura of two candles , Gabriel 's large and lumpy head , up on high beyond the choir-stalls , outlined against the soaring stalagmites of organ-pipes . |
| 15 | may have been a professional slip of the tongue i in saying that now be up to Labour , it is not up to Labour at all , it is up to all of u , it is up to all of us , it is up to all of us all , and you and you and you , you ca n't dump responsibility , it is up to all of us , all of us |
| 16 | But other people have used things like tokens which can be y'know saved up to exchanged for consumer durables for example . |
| 17 | He gave himself up at High Down Prison , in London . |
| 18 | He bought them literally by the armful , and read as many as three in a day , picked up at random from the piles he had brought home ; yet afterwards he could tell of what he had read , so beautifully , according to Reid , that the book itself would be a disappointment by comparison . |
| 19 | The Government Commission , set up by Labour in 1965 to circumvent the rest of the Civil Service , has been quietly declining under the Conservatives ; Heath has made his own arrangements to the same end , by setting up the Central Policy Review Staff , which has been housed by the Cabinet Office next door . |
| 20 | Though he did not like Stych much — too stuck up by far with his university degree and his oilmen friends — he hoped that Hank had not stolen the money for the car . |
| 21 | I wheezed and spluttered and whooped and finally overdid it totally and ended up by subsiding with my chin in a snow-drift in an attitude of Muslim prayer . |