Example sentences of "[vb pp] up over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you would have thought that someone would have looked up over all those days . |
| 2 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 3 | The four were Donna Maguire , arrested in Turnhout , Belgium , on June 16 , who was wanted in connexion with attacks in West Germany in 1989 ; Gerard Majella Harte , arrested over the Dutch border on June 16 , after evading Belgian police near Turnhout , with a man provisionally named as Michael Collins who escaped in handcuffs but was later picked up over the Dutch border in Chaam , on June 18 ; and Paul Hughes , who drove through a police checkpoint in Chaam on June 18 and was arrested there on June 19 . |
| 4 | The sleeves of his pale blue shirt were rolled up over his muscly forearms . |
| 5 | ‘ Which must mean that , regardless of the fact that he 's so wound up over you he ca n't think straight , you 're only playing around with him for the pure hell of it . ’ |
| 6 | Jesus chucked out the rubbish from the temple and swept away some of the traditions that had grown up over the years , insisting that his house become again a house of prayer for all nations . |
| 7 | ‘ The next generation which has grown up over here and understands what their children have to go through will handle them much , much better , ’ Cecil Williams speculated . |
| 8 | The magnificent palace of Diocletian at Split , which inspired Robert Adam , the English designer of the eighteenth century , and also influenced the contemporary Georgian styles , still forms the outer shell , a square mile in area , which surrounds the vibrant city which has grown up over the centuries within and around its protective walls . |
| 9 | It 's grown up over the years erm in fact I do n't think it counts as much , nearly as much now , as it used to . |
| 10 | Reckoned up over the eleven months covered , this represented a take-home figure of £64 : 3s. : 5d. , but in what proportion this was distributed amongst them can only be guessed at . |
| 11 | And , somehow , my savings , carefully built up over the years , were starting to run dry . |
| 12 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 13 | The results confirm the so-called Standard Model , the theory which physicists have built up over the past 15 years to explain both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it . |
| 14 | Consequently , compromises have built up over the years . |
| 15 | Built up over the past 10 years , his aquilegia collection consists of about 130 species and hybrids , with the emphasis on species ‘ to save as many as possible from extinction and allow present and future generations to know and enjoy their great beauty ’ . |
| 16 | If the advice is more positive , will the parents be able to shrug off attitudes which have built up over decades in a few days ? |
| 17 | Older people may have the scope for choice , but how they use it depends on the resources which they have built up over their lives . |
| 18 | Drainage : what needs to be done before a good soil structure can be built up over the whole farm ? |
| 19 | The financial resources of Abbey National are exceptionally strong and our reserves have been built up over many years through a combination of prudence and innovation . |
| 20 | Agencies like this find that some people want a complete change from previous work , others like to continue using the skills they have built up over the years . |
| 21 | Another proof is taken and so the print is built up over a period of time . |
| 22 | No longer are these words turned into a metal block , and no longer does the creation of that block require the same sophisticated skills as those built up over many years by typesetters . |
| 23 | The stocking level would be built up over the weeks . |
| 24 | It is a wonderful feeling to be able to experience the strength , suppleness and stamina that you have built up over the last three weeks . |
| 25 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 26 | The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable . |
| 27 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 28 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 29 | The special school sector was built up over a century or more . |
| 30 | Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training . |