Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but , yes but you see they got so mixed up that the , |
| 2 | It 's Your pipes get clogged up and the bore down the middle gets thinner and thinner so the water sort of hardly trickles through . |
| 3 | After the cross-country phase , the penalties are added up and the competitor with the fewest penalties wins . |
| 4 | The value of the ‘ pearls ’ each family has collected is then added up and the family with the highest number is the winner . |
| 5 | This new lot have come up because the landowners are fools . |
| 6 | This takes time to begin with — lots of lovely sitting around going through the magazines again but , when needed , the index which is stored in a file can be looked up and the right magazine located in a few minutes . |
| 7 | He was the inventor of water pick-up troughs laid between the rails , whereby a scoop lowered into the trough from the locomotive or tender allowed additional water to be picked up whilst the train was running , thus making possible much longer non-stop runs . |
| 8 | Sales had picked up and the paper was now established . |
| 9 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 10 | If the policy was successful , its effects would be picked up when the next analysis was undertaken , and projected into the future . |
| 11 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 12 | Since instructions are processed from left to right on this computer ( unlike data which is processed from right to left ) , the characters of an instruction are picked up until a word mark is reached ( indicating the beginning of the next instruction ) ; the instruction is then executed . |
| 13 | We , we , we were supposed to be going there this year , we had it booked up and every thing , we lost our hundred pound deposit . |
| 14 | It is flown there as the alternative to the massive O-dako or rectangular Edo kites , largely because its three-spar construction enables it to be rolled up when the spine is removed . |
| 15 | Category A debt 's interest will be paid on time with the principal repaid as cash comes in ; interest on B debt will be rolled up and the capital not repaid until all A debt is redeemed . |
| 16 | The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame . |
| 17 | It was n't torn up when the other ones went to school . |
| 18 | If the foundation is wound up because the loan agreement ends , what happens ? |
| 19 | It happened at New York 's Museum of Natural History in 1976 , and the experiments had to be wound up because the funding stopped . |
| 20 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 21 | Finally , you can apply to have your debtor made bankrupt or , if a company , to be wound up if the amount you are owed is not paid to you . |
| 22 | Only a small amount of sand is sucked up if the air flow is kept low . |
| 23 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 24 | He 'd noted that Howard had clammed up as the new arrival appeared . |
| 25 | On an early test flight the undercarriage retraction mechanism jammed because a glove got caught up and the gear collapsed in the subsequent landing , fortunately without damage to the airframe . |
| 26 | Typically , the time to name is speeded up when the picture is preceded by itself , or if it is preceded by a picture of a related object . |
| 27 | After the second amendment was ratified in April 1978 , this process was speeded up because the concept of an official gold price was abandoned ( the final step in eliminating gold from its central role in the Fund as a standard of value ) , the Fund 's own unit of account became the SDR and members agreed that the SDR should become the principal reserve asset of the international monetary system . |
| 28 | In principle the integration of primary and secondary care should also be enhanced ( although this could have been speeded up if the government had integrated FHSAs with DHAs from the beginning ) . |
| 29 | It was planned to establish this common market in transitional stages over 12 years : actually this process was speeded up and a full customs union was achieved , triumphantly , on 1 July 1968 . |
| 30 | Expropriations were to be speeded up and the land settlements were to become new reform units , with wider criteria for membership , thus increasing the number of beneficiaries . |