Example sentences of "be [verb] up [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they soon fade into the background , leaving behind only thematic reminiscences which are picked up and swiftly developed in a manner suitable to the changing dramatic context . |
| 2 | While immediate surroundings may be derelict and depressing , once they are cleaned up and appropriately landscaped the appearance and appeal of the building is transformed . |
| 3 | for proceeding to or returning from a place where it is to be or has been tested , or for proceeding to a place where it is to be broken up or otherwise dismantled . |
| 4 | All bills for departing guests must be made up and double checked to ensure that all charges have been posted to them ( Fig. 3.8(c) , Fig. 3.30 ) . |
| 5 | We want all weeds/shrubbed areas to be cleaned up and properly nurtured . |
| 6 | For example , given that streets must be dug up and completely reconstructed to create a Woonerf , there are the complexities of coordination with utilities which use the street as conduits for pipes and cables . |
| 7 | Danger notices had been put up and largely disregarded . |
| 8 | Of the fruit-eating pigeons , obligate frugivores in tropical Australia , one group does not take grit and the seeds are passed through the gut while the pericarp is digested , but the brown and white-headed pigeons have a large muscular gizzard typical of columbids and take grit , which means that the seeds are ground up and later digested . |
| 9 | Ribs were broken up and mostly lost , vertebrae had all their processes removed and three out of nine lost , pelves were reduced to the region of the acetabulum and one damaged beyond recognition , and five out of twelve phalanges and metapodials remained . |
| 10 | We prefer that prostitutes should stand in the streets to be picked up by passing cars ( not the roomiest place for sex ) , in constant danger of being beaten up and even murdered , and that valuable police and court time be wasted in arresting , convicting and imposing heavy fines on girls who , unable to pay , return to soliciting even harder , that pimps should come into being to batten off the girls , and that women who are not prostitutes should be harassed by cruising motorists who will not take no for an answer . |
| 11 | Two off-duty prison officers who were also in the minibus were beaten up and then released , but three others who escaped claimed that they had been unable to get help from a nearby police and Army checkpoint . |
| 12 | The building was boarded up and effectively left to decay . |
| 13 | The church became redundant in 1983 , and was closed up and barely maintained . |
| 14 | Her father , an official in a coalmine , had died when she was young and she was brought up and well educated by ‘ academic ’ sisters . |
| 15 | The aspect which was n't so popular was the business of giving grants to all and sundry , which was whipped up and wildly exaggerated by the Tory press . |