Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or are they so cluttered up that there is n't any real space to work on ? |
| 2 | Yes but , yes but you see they got so mixed up that the , |
| 3 | She 's so grown up that she shouted herself hoarse through a bloody pantomime not two hours ago . |
| 4 | He was so fed up that he put another penny to the one earned for a whole day 's labour and went to the pub where he drowned his sorrows in a pint . |
| 5 | This took the form of teasing , mostly , and one day I was so fed up that I just walked out of school . |
| 6 | National associations , like the British Boxing Board of Control , were fed up with the mobsters — so fed up that they were willing to pay an affiliation fee to one or both of these new bodies to gain the right to submit the names of boxers they licensed for title fights sanctioned by the WBA and the WBC . |
| 7 | ‘ You could have told your men to try and make life difficult for me , in the hope that eventually I 'll get so fed up that I 'll accept your offer . |
| 8 | The porcupine fish ( opposite , top ) inflates itself by gulping in water ( or air if it has been removed from the sea ) until its body is so puffed up that its spiny scales stand out rigidly from its body and defy any killer to devour it . |
| 9 | He arrived at work at 12.30pm and he was so hyped up that he appeared to be drunk . |
| 10 | A bat is a machine , whose internal electronics are so wired up that its wing muscles cause it to home in on insects , as an unconscious guided missile homes in on an aeroplane . |
| 11 | The four-year-old has always been highly strung and Hiner added : ‘ He got so worked up that the French vets could n't examine him . ’ |
| 12 | Rugby will not get any change out of Leicester , but it is just possible that Nottingham are now so fired up that they might escape with the point they need at Orrell . |
| 13 | Fran 's nerves were raw , so strung up that she could feel her hands shaking as she fastened her bag and picked up her tape-recorder from the desk . |
| 14 | These are likely to be self-serving , but , in Berle and Means ' view , the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests , or those of the shareholders as currently required by law , management might act in the interests of society as a whole , evolving into a ‘ purely neutral technocracy balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 15 | Blanche pretends to be so well brought up that she can not go in . |
| 16 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 17 | The other girl in contrast to both Jenny and Sheila was so heavily made up that it was like looking at someone behind a mask . |
| 18 | Vital grain supplies due in from Siberia were so badly held up that in January 1922 the national Council of Labour and Defence sent there Felix Dzerzhinsky , the head of the secret police , and since April 1921 Commissar for Transport . |
| 19 | Some years earlier a train carrying pilgrims had been so seriously held up that its journey had taken twenty-four hours rather than seven or eight . |