Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 2 | Maybe the two are mixed up some way or another . |
| 3 | He 's been made up this morning , he 's had a big tax rebate , fifteen hundred quid ! |
| 4 | yeah , mine 's going along quite nicely too and my , I 've taken some er cuttings and they 're popped up this week |
| 5 | They had already been hauled up eight times , the first during the summer of 1981 , and had been fined a total of £23,200 . |
| 6 | Special recruitment drives have been organised , " model agreements " governing when and under what conditions temporary workers might be used , and " casual workers " charters ' have been drawn up Some unions , notably the electricians , have gone further , establishing local registers of ( otherwise ) unemployed members from which employers have to draw when filling the temporary positions enterprise level agreements have permitted them to create . |
| 7 | eh ? yeah they are shrivelled up little nuts , there was this programme last night about the B B C when it first started in the nineteen fifties |
| 8 | Back in the car G. repeats that the day has been typical except we have n't been called up on the radio and he 's been called up twenty-nine times in the last month . |
| 9 | On Saturday , he had been tied up all day in the stable , but had taken a walk round the Broad over the lunch hour . |
| 10 | In France the direction des consulats et des affaires commerciales which had been set up some years earlier was reorganised in 1882 . |
| 11 | ‘ The head of our company is most displeased with Mr Goode and me , ’ Cave said in June , talking on the telephone to an Iranian who was unenthusiastic about weapons prices that had been marked up 300 percent ; ‘ He said if they do n't want to deal , break it off . ’ |
| 12 | They are set up each time when the operation is required at run time . |
| 13 | They 've been brought up different way have n't they . |
| 14 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 15 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 16 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 17 | Patients , to Aline , were fascinating mental problems to be picked up each time one walked on duty and put down directly one walked out of the ward . |
| 18 | The list for the Labour Group will be made up each Friday morning and passed to Jean Speedie by lunchtime . |
| 19 | An extra £5 million would be brought forward from next year to offset the extra cost , but it would not be made up next year . |
| 20 | Chairman Alan Noble said a short-list would be drawn up this week . |
| 21 | A short list will be drawn up next week . |
| 22 | You can access a pop-up calculator , a notepad facility that can be called up each time you execute the program and , from a reviewers point of view the most appealing , you can access the manual at any time during the running of the program . |
| 23 | Instead of this line , which involved the construction of a tunnel , 48 chains long , under the rising ground near Foxton , into the Welland Valley , Barnes recommended boldly that the canal should be raised up six locks immediately , a sharp climb of 75 feet . |
| 24 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 25 | Oi , imagine living in one of those houses there you 'd be woken up all night by ambulances sw blaring away ! |
| 26 | I , you know , usually for the hundred tonight I meant to be served up one packet and that means Wednesday buying |
| 27 | The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ The horses do n't need to be lined up military fashion waiting for the cavalry charge , ’ added Mr Green , who has seen every National live since 1946 . |
| 29 | I did n't have to think ‘ Well , if I put that dress on I 'll only get it dirty because the baby will be sick over me ’ — to be dressed up all day and feel you can be clean and only have nice jobs to do and always be with people … |
| 30 | The following story concerns the sighting of a Deltic seen clearly entering Hadley Wood South tunnel , bearing the number 55020 Nimbus , even though the locomotive had been cut up seven months previously . |