Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 2 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 3 | From two furlongs out , the well-backed and fancied maiden Adam Smith was the only serious threat but the older horse , vigorously shaken up by Steve Cauthen , put him firmly in his place . |
| 4 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 5 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 6 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 7 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 8 | The other end of the rainbow was presumably curled up inside the cloud . |
| 9 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 10 | Milton 's maintenance of the traditional Renaissance literary values of art , imitation , and exercise allowed him to be appropriated by a culturally elitist agenda indivisibly caught up with an elitist social and political agenda . |
| 11 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 12 | It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother . |
| 13 | Such was the slowness and enclosedness of all her movements that the girls instinctively looked up from their school books to follow her closely . |
| 14 | He is now wholly caught up in his own sufferings , in a new dichotomy , an agonizing split within himself : Although he rejects conscience as ‘ but a word that cowards use , /Devised at first to keep the strong in awe ’ ( 309f. ) , the duality between truth and lies proves too great for Richard to sustain . |
| 15 | The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing . |
| 16 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 17 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 18 | A long clearence from defence , eventually picked up by Gary Bull , who slid past a slippery Anderson , judged it well past the keeper to poke home his 18th of the season . |
| 19 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 20 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 21 | With the genre scenes , part of the secret lies again in the way natural-sounding dialogue is skilfully caught up into a formal musical structure . |
| 22 | There was a burst of male laughter from the bar , which had suddenly filled up with men wearing MCC ties ; the day 's play at Lord 's would have ended just about twenty minutes ago . |
| 23 | The ferocious ‘ Wally ’ Fuentes Morrison only joined up after the 1973 coup . |
| 24 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 25 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 26 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 27 | One of them died soon afterwards ; and the other one — I saw it myself-was so bad and its head so swollen up with the stings that it had to be supported in its stable by a kind of sling fixed to the roof . ’ |
| 28 | I have seen the dyke before the village entirely filled up with men sitting there discussing the week 's fishing . |
| 29 | Unprecedented anti-government street demonstrations in Tirana on July 1 were brutally broken up by the security forces , and the next day four Albanians fled to the West German embassy , to be joined by 3,200 others in the course of the following week . |
| 30 | Once or twice they 'd had to sleep down there , though not often because Gloria said it was n't nice to be all pressed up against people you did n't know . |