Example sentences of "[coord] be [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 From here the oils diffuse into the bloodstream or are taken up by the lymph and interstitial fluid ( a liquid surrounding all body cells ) to other parts of the body .
2 Plans cater for both an immediate accident and the long-term care of individuals who survive or are caught up in the disaster — including the rescuers .
3 At the root of this divide , as Pugin and Dickens both perceive , lie mechanical production and the profit motive , both of which are reflected in many details of the drawing , and are summed up in the subject of the lecture , advertised by the ‘ Mechanicks Institute ’ , ‘ on a new designing machine capable of making 1000 changes with the same set of ornaments ’ .
4 Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May .
5 The IT and CTT policies are policies of indemnity and are settled up to the limits of each policy section less applicable excesses .
6 It was a shrug the shoulders , sink the hands deep in the pockets and be fed up about the running nose cold .
7 Green sometimes accompanied by his wife , was often in Keswick on business ( he would set off walking from Ambleside , and be picked up by the carrier at Wyburn ) and would call to visit his children , and take them out for walks down to Derwentwater .
8 Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents .
9 When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall .
10 Within half an hour of leaving Rockford , the convoy had reached its destination and were drawn up on the verge alongside the perimeter fence , just short of the big front gates of Bethlehem House .
11 And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy .
12 Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared .
13 shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade .
14 After a while she became more accustomed to the extreme dark and quite enjoyed blowing out the light and being swallowed up by the billowing darkness .
15 Up in the gallery a careful watch is being kept on sound levels to ensure the noise from the fan is drowned out by the radiophonic wind effect now carrying through the studio 's talkback system and being picked up by the microphones .
16 That no similar slogan has come from the car workers is important , and is tied up with the fact that ‘ the car plants for the car workers ’ makes no sense to the lads who work on the line .
17 The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims .
18 The piece of membrane where all of this action takes place breaks off and is swallowed up by the cell .
19 Cheque book journalism is a broader and more complex issue than the confiscation of the proceeds of crime and is bound up with the more general question of media reporting of the criminal justice system .
20 As the ribber needle moves back , the stitch on it comes over the latch of the ribber needle and is picked up by the transfer needle .
21 Benny reddened at the stares , but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row .
22 Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers .
23 They just went in head first and was swallowed up in the road .
24 Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery .
25 The meeting on Jan. 8 , 1990 , was attended by 10,000-15,000 people and was broken up by the police , one person being arrested .
26 She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street .
27 I sat on it , and was pulled up to the island .
28 The even-money favourite was never moving in his best style and was pulled up before the 15th fence .
29 Trainer David Barons had no excuses for last year 's winner Seagram , who made no show and was pulled up before the third-last .
30 They never found him and I often wondered whether he went in with his machine and dead gunner or whether he managed to bale out and was picked up by the flyingboat they had stationed in Sicily for sea rescue work . ’
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