Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large parts of West and South Middlesbrough are eaten up by the Langbaurgh and Stockton South constituencies . |
| 2 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 3 | I do n't quite know , er morning always seems that much busier as regards food , so Ivan 's going up in the morning erm , you know why ? |
| 4 | Marie 's sitting up on the bed with a packet of fags . |
| 5 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 6 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 7 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 8 | The Reaver Knights are made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses . |
| 9 | Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic . |
| 10 | The Youngs were standing up in the dining room , ready to go to bed . |
| 11 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 12 | Group managing director Tom Hempenstall is moving up to the new post of chief executive . |
| 13 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 14 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 15 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 16 | Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs . |
| 17 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 18 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 19 | Norway was of course seeded last in FIFA 's set up for the world cup ( no surprise as FIFA 's seeding is just base on recent world cup 's ) . |
| 20 | Mr you 'll spoi you 'll spoil us when I saw this tonight I thought we I got ta say something because Martin is coming up with the er same motion as it was last time , it was not much different so probably with the same reply 's got ta be made and that is that the Labour party is not the caring party , everyone here , I 'm sure the Liberals as well as the Conservatives care we are a caring party as much as you are and we are concerned , we are concerned about , we are concerned about |
| 21 | DOOR-to-door brooms and buckets seller Betterware is cleaning up in the recession . |
| 22 | Eighty per cent of the weight of a 450 gram standard SL is taken up by the ballast . |
| 23 | RONALD Fraser 's In Search of a Past was published in 1984 , and Ralph Glasser 's Growing up in the Gorbals in 1986 . |
| 24 | Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast . |
| 25 | But Donald was doubled up on the sofa . |
| 26 | The BMW was held up by the set of traffic lights just before Brewer Street . |
| 27 | And very soon after that , Matilda was moved up into the top form where Miss Plimsoll quickly discovered that this amazing child was every bit as bright as Miss Honey had said . |
| 28 | The Inter-governmental Bureau of Informatics was set up by the United Nations . |
| 29 | PREMIER John Major and his bungling sidekick Norman Lamont were shown up for the joke double act they are yesterday . |
| 30 | Between the 1150s and the 1180s connections between the curia and Paris were built up as the studium , or university , began to form . |