Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was lifted up and lashed to a stretcher . |
| 2 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 3 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 4 | An alternative explanation , however , is that rhythms with a 24-hour period are received from the external world — but that these are picked up and transmitted to the body clock less effectively in premature babies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It could be picked up and thrown to the ground below , but this would be incredibly dangerous . |
| 7 | As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities . |
| 8 | Every tiny fragment of fibre , denim and leather was picked up and dropped in the bags . |
| 9 | By the time the gay movement started in 1970 the gay friends I had were people I had picked up or met through a pick-up ; I probably knew about half a dozen gay people intimately . |
| 10 | The unpaid interest is rolled up and added to the total debt . |
| 11 | Other mornings it had been rolled up and put in a plastic case within minutes of my getting out of it . |
| 12 | The roots torn up and bleeding on the ground and the woman smashed by life 's storms were to him interchangeable images . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You 'll be sucked up and seduced by the beau monde , I know you will . ’ |
| 15 | And it seems a bit much to suddenly turn round when you 're grown up and say to the mother , ‘ No , you should n't be like that . |
| 16 | For all of these day-rate jobs a time book was kept and wages were reckoned up and paid at the end of the month . |
| 17 | However , the Front was increasingly built up and reinforced by the North via the route which became known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail . |
| 18 | Over the past six months or so you appear to have taken a leaf out of the Aquarian book and aired your grievances in such a manner that you now face the possibility of a complete break from the past , which in turn would alter so much you have built up and established over the years . |
| 19 | Parliamentary proceedings are written up and published in the daily Hansard . |
| 20 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 21 | Her monochromes , obtained through the superimposition of differing and at times contradictory tonalities , take on their full significance when they are placed , either hung up or leaning on the ground , in a pre-chosen space with controlled lighting . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | Well , in the end the inevitable happened — Illtyd got fed up and called off the engagement , and thereafter ‘ Jilted by Illtyd ’ became a byword in Hut 4 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Finally the kite was finished , fully made up and lying like a collapsed tent on the grass , green on green . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The precise criteria and procedures whereby schools were included in the project are discussed at length elsewhere in this report , but we may note that a set of guidelines for school participation was drawn up and developed by the Project Coordinating Team ( see Appendix 3 ) and that these gave direction to schools as they established library committees and developed their plans . |
| 28 | A list of deadlines and responsibilities was drawn up and agreed between the two departments and this has led to a better understanding of each others tasks and the benefits of compliance . |
| 29 | A timetable covering the completion of our work and of the transaction under the terms of the engagement will be drawn up and agreed between the directors and us by [ date ] . |
| 30 | The matter was raised in the meeting of the Land and Properties Sub-Committee 14 January 1992 ( LP 4 ) where it was resolved to offer the land for sale by open tender on condition that the purchaser submits a detailed planning application for one detached dwelling based on plans already drawn up and agreed by the planning officer as acceptable . |