Example sentences of "be [adj] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you 're all dressed up to the nines ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ OK , the shooting 's stopped and we 're all parked up outside the Butcher Building . |
| 3 | They are all pumped up at the moment . |
| 4 | They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles . |
| 5 | Thus law , religion and mortality were all bound up in the imperial title and role , and any offence against the Emperor and his law was an offence directly against God . |
| 6 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 7 | We were all lined up on the field at Peobresanskoe … the Winter Palace . |
| 8 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 9 | We were all caught up in the shock and wondered what the significance was . |
| 10 | Formal groups were those set up by the management of an organization to undertake duties in the pursuit of organization goals . |
| 11 | These private verses were first collected up in the Nonesuch Collected Papers vol. 2 ( see MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ) . |
| 12 | Following a tap penalty Mark Willis and Wilkinson were both held up on the line before McGrath touched down and Mike Robson converted . |
| 13 | How I know this thing is all tied up with the decision to spy on him . |
| 14 | That suggests that life is all bound up with the penis , and has nothing to do with women . |
| 15 | Again it 's part of the nervousness yeah I 'm gon na put me notes down there and I 'm not gon na hold them I you know I do n't want to be anywhere away from them so it 's all tied up with the preparation as well . |
| 16 | The government 's own team have recognised that morale in teaching is low and that the position this year is significantly worse than last , yet the government have for this year ignored the findings of that particular report and it 's all tied up with the whole issue of pay , workload etc .. |
| 17 | It 's all tied up in the shops . ’ |
| 18 | It 's all wired up in the back as well . |
| 19 | Oh well that 's alright ended up on the cycle path , you know . |
| 20 | and it was all split up into the different seminar group , we we had to take one aspect . |
| 21 | It was all taken up by the top brass you know . |