Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red Lion Square , covering about half an acre at the most , and mostly taken up by the Great North Road , represents just the shrunken remains of a market place that once covered about five times that area . |
| 2 | He was , we were told , a butcher from Thaxted who joined a gang of baddies and eventually landed up in York jail , where he was hanged for horse stealing . |
| 3 | Keiran served in the US Air Force , fought the Pentagon to prevent being posted to Vietnam and eventually ended up at Salford studying under the G.I. Bill of Rights , all paid for by Uncle Sam . |
| 4 | He had served for many years in India , where he was awarded the VC for action during the Mutiny and eventually ended up as Commander in Chief . |
| 5 | Professor Dyos ' study of Camberwell was the first in a series of examinations which have enabled us to see how the ubiquitous terraced streets of our great cities were laid out and slowly built up in a highly complex way , for a whole series of social and economic reasons . |
| 6 | Shiona gripped the steering-wheel and squeezed her eyes shut and slowly counted up to ten . |
| 7 | It was bulky and badly tied up with paper and string but Sarah did n't need to feel it to know what it was . |
| 8 | Horses and litopterns happened to exploit four-legged galloping , and so ended up with almost identical legs . |
| 9 | Kangaroos happened to exploit two-legged hopping , and so ended up with their own uniquely ( at least since the dinosaurs ) massive hind legs and tail . |
| 10 | A wife can be busy bunging up a family and so taken up with their affairs that she fails to give her husband real attention . |
| 11 | But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter . |
| 12 | But the true memorial to his father , the empire Xavier de Chavigny had so painstakingly and brilliantly built up during his lifetime — that he had simply allowed to decay . |
| 13 | As well as support from his bosses , the players are clearly and naturally lined up behind the beleaguered manager . |
| 14 | So Deborah went with Farmer Plant and was washed and generally cleaned up by the motherly farmwife . |
| 15 | If you just place them on the back seat of your car , or they are removed from an arrangement and not packed up in any special way , some of the petals will almost definitely become bruised , which will cause brown lines , patches and spots once the flowers have been pressed . |
| 16 | and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods |
| 17 | We came here so that we could be in control of our own lives and not tangled up with anyone else . |
| 18 | One of the problems with the prison service is that it is directly driven by civil servants and largely made up of civil servants . |
| 19 | I learned so much and soon caught up with the fleet ’ . |
| 20 | He joined at Newark central office , and finally ended up at Bury St. Edmunds in 1985 as manager . |
| 21 | You could be right , for many people have drifted from one job to another and finally ended up in public relations . |
| 22 | With the outbreak of war , the activities of the NUWM were suspended , and finally wound up in 1943 . |
| 23 | He took up rowing in a wherry , and finally worked up to a single shell . |
| 24 | Often , the tin oxide would be very thinly scattered within the lode and possibly mixed up with other minerals such as quartz , tourmaline and chlorite . |
| 25 | I explained , as gently as possible , that my mother was very old-fashioned and always checked up on me in the morning . |
| 26 | Those who believe Gerstner is a good choice for IBM point to his skill at cutting corporate expenses and willingness to pare payrolls , implying that IBM is a good but bloated company and conveniently forgetting that Akers cut IBM 's payroll by 25% and still ended up with unacceptable results . |
| 27 | As the countries of the world , irrespective of bloc , appear to become more and more bound up with one another through the extension of transnational practices , some of which are directly identifiable as practices of global capitalism and some of which not , the fact of the global system becomes more and more obvious to ever more people , though the nature of the global system might still appear extremely difficult to grasp . |
| 28 | He became more and more wrapped up in himself . |
| 29 | Flares on carts and boats , horses stamping , men shouting , loose herrings flying all over the place and quickly snatched up by children and men . |
| 30 | There is thus , for Schleiermacher , an inherently religious awareness at the very core of our own existence as human beings : it is both inherent in ourselves , and inherently bound up with the reality of God . |