Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society must be very mixed up when so many terminally ill people want to die but are denied the chance while others think it is morally wrong for this child to be born . |
| 2 | If Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers ( and there 's a catchy title if ever there was one ) can not weave any more magic into his protest than ‘ The national curriculum has become a political football being booted up and down the right wing of the Conservative Party , ’ he does n't deserve to be taken seriously . |
| 3 | The scenario repeats itself again and again : the rainwater gutters are choked with leaves and self-seeded grass ; damp seeps through the roof and , as the building is often boarded up and not properly ventilated , perfect conditions soon exist for an outbreak of dry rot . |
| 4 | The building was boarded up and effectively left to decay . |
| 5 | The Maxwell Houses , as they became known , were labelled as a ’ blot on the landscape ’ after they were boarded up and then simply abandoned . |
| 6 | All the houses were boarded up and so were the few shops . |
| 7 | That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time ! |
| 8 | After she has paraded up and down with Gianfranco Ferré , current king of Dior , pointing out various details on his work , we look at the sketches and ask to see dress number 59 . |
| 9 | By the time we had driven to Port Eynon , the wind had really picked up but not easily deterred , we abandoned the car and set off towards the cliffs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But WIN was leaking like a sieve , the Polish militia were told in advance and the men were picked up as soon as they touched the ground . |
| 12 | Charlie could hear rifles being cocked up and down the trenches as sleepy men quickly came to life . |
| 13 | He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him . |
| 14 | She had sat up until late learning the brief she had been sent , then snatched three hours before the call came . |
| 15 | The speed of them and everything you know , you you 'd think the film was speeded up but apparently it 's not . |
| 16 | Seven aliases , and he 's got the moon and stars sewn up as well ! ’ |
| 17 | From my present perspective twenty years on ( whether grown up or not ) , it is interesting to look around and see how far the same comment would be appropriate today . |
| 18 | Because wha we 're talking about a very age old attitude which is that a mother and a father and their children ar , is the correct unit , should stay together , at least until the children are grown up and probably well beyond ? |
| 19 | Children grown up and away . |
| 20 | At the wedding a host of best wishes were received from the other side of the world where many relatives called Jones still remembered young Carol who had gone off to Australia as a child and was now all grown up and about to get wed . |
| 21 | ‘ My children are all grown up and now it 's my turn , ’ she says . |
| 22 | I think 'cos I 'm more grown up and so is she . |
| 23 | Or are they grown up and still writing but to no avail ? |
| 24 | At a later time it was even decreed that should there be no male ( in particular a father ) available to sever the foreskin and make the blood flow , then the child should wait until he had grown up and then perform the operation himself . |
| 25 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 26 | The start is at 11am and not as in the Scottish Cyclists Union handbook , and entries will be accepted up until 10.30am . |
| 27 | Over the next six hours , heat built up until eventually the reaction ran out of control . |
| 28 | A purpose will be to reassess the value of our penal system as it has been built up until now — but much more than that . |
| 29 | The area had been built up where not long before , according to Defoe 's account , there were fields of grass with cows feeding in them . |
| 30 | It seemed that all the other Minpins from the big tree had turned up as well to witness the great victory over the dreaded Gruncher . |