Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is jurisdiction for actions valued at less than £50,000 to be transferred up to the High Court under ss41(1) or 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 , although such transfers are likely to occur only in exceptional cases raising questions of general public interest . |
| 2 | Despite a statement by Selwyn Lloyd , the Foreign Secretary , in the House of Commons on 23rd July that there was ‘ no question of large-scale operations by British troops on the ground ’ , Army units had to be flown up to the Oman from Kenya to support the Sultan 's armed forces in crushing the rebellion . |
| 3 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 4 | I did n't care to be squashed up in the shelter . |
| 5 | You can also ask for the patient 's meal to be cut up in the kitchen ready to eat , although this is something that can be done when you order the meal . |
| 6 | Blood sugar needs to be kept up to the correct level in order to allow both body and mind to function correctly , and the body is very clever at informing us of its requirements . |
| 7 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |
| 8 | Over a thousand years ago the Phoenix King Morvael introduced a system of training large bodies of troops to be called up from the populace . |
| 9 | Simon was expected to be called up by the Army , and sent off God knew where . |
| 10 | Previously Venturous had been a noteworthy arrival to be written up in the local press . |
| 11 | With a low-start , low-cost with-profits endowment , payments are reduced in the first few years , and the difference has to be made up in the remaining period . |
| 12 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 14 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 15 | We have to ensure that people who deserve to be locked up for the public good are locked up . |
| 16 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 17 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 18 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know exactly what we have up there , or what stuff we are likely to be sending up in the next few years … but I 'll take side bets on orbital weapons , either ready or in the pipe-line . ’ |
| 20 | The Continental C90–16F powerplant being equipped with a vacuum pump , the artificial horizon and DI erect immediately on starting and do not need to be spun up by the act of getting airborne , as happens with similarly-aged aeroplanes fitted with venturis . |
| 21 | It seemed to be given up to the birds and their morning hymns … |
| 22 | The Black Man of Saxony , playing grisly tunes so that the children would follow him to his terrible mountain lair , there to be given up to the Man of the Mountains . |
| 23 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 24 | It was he who tended most to be swallowed up by the show 's overall style and it was therefore he who became in a sense ultimately dispensable . |
| 25 | ‘ They will be subsumed , ’ said one official sonorously , implying that Tory ideology , at least in Strasbourg , was about to be swallowed up by the centrist Christian Democrats . |
| 26 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 27 | I scuttle off , to be swallowed up by the wavering shadows of mulberry trees . |
| 28 | The injury itself occurred as a result of a cross-field back-row move , bereft of forward movement , that was quickly going nowhere to be swallowed up by the English midfield . |
| 29 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 30 | At a higher social level the lives and fortunes of individuals continued to be bound up with the continental possessions . |