Example sentences of "up and [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concrete slabs were taken up and replaced with a crazy paving patio , and gradually they developed their plans , as money allowed . |
| 2 | It had been decided in July 1944 that the Cabinet Committee on post-War Civil Aviation should be wound up and replaced by a Minister responsible specifically for this area of policy . |
| 3 | Now this is the time when you must watch them , because it can take from two to two days , two hours from two , two hours to two days to regain control of the brain , depending on the person and if it 's , happens outside and they want to get away , stress the fact you get up and run under a bus and they do n't mean to obviously |
| 4 | erm because I 'd phoned up and asked for them , er my secretary had phoned up and asked for a meeting with her but the response was we 're not allowed to meet with you , so we said okay , cos it 's public money and things |
| 5 | POLICE searched a hospital yesterday after an ex-patient was tied up and strangled with a scarf . |
| 6 | But had they — or someone else — not come in , Price 's would have been sold to a foreign buyer ( an option Shell considered ) , broken up and merged with a rival , or worse , have disappeared altogether , taking 160 years of manufacturing history with it . |
| 7 | The ‘ lady ’ in question was heavily made up and dressed in a tight sheath of black and gold lurex that ended provocatively at mid-thigh . |
| 8 | He picked himself up and staggered down a corridor . |
| 9 | a jury how he and his girlfriend were kidnapped , tied up and pushed down a hill in a burning car . |
| 10 | I was lifted up and lashed to a stretcher . |
| 11 | He proved that all 17,000 verses could be minutely inscribed on a piece of parchment 10.8 in by 8.4 in , which could then be folded up and placed in a walnut shell . |
| 12 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 13 | At a recent Thames rodeo the ladies had to provide their own rescues in a heat as the rescue boats had packed up and gone for a brawl ! |
| 14 | With peeled veneer , a round log is heated in a steam pit for about twenty-four hours and then set up and rotated in a lathe in which a long knife peels the veneer circumferentially at a speed which is wonderful to watch . |
| 15 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 16 | They took the escalator up and settled at a table overlooking the fountain . |
| 17 | ‘ Melanie , will you slip up and put on a skirt ? |
| 18 | Other mornings it had been rolled up and put in a plastic case within minutes of my getting out of it . |
| 19 | It had been opened up and re-stitched in a different coloured thread . |
| 20 | Steam for 70 min , by the end of which time the pudding will be perfectly puffed up and set with a just-molten streak in the centre . |
| 21 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 22 | About 4lb of Semtex was discovered rolled up and primed in a prison lavatory . |
| 23 | Move across , up and left to a rock ledge . |
| 24 | Then Freddy got blown up and drowned in a shell crater , and all the time Margery was in a hotel two hundred miles away , putting Woolley to bed , dead drunk after a promotion . |
| 25 | ‘ The problem is that I learnt this trick whilst tied up and submerged in a barrel of water . |
| 26 | I crouched , shivering with cold , until I was dragged up and thrown into a huge cage on a gaudily painted cart and driven down through the Shambles and Westchepe to the magistrates at the Guildhall . |