Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moon had come up and laid a greenish iridescence on the surface of the lake . |
| 2 | But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey . |
| 3 | The full expression of flight can really be conjured up when drawing the gliders and soarers . |
| 4 | All fatalities associated with this species have occurred when swimmers or divers have casually picked up and handled the octopus . |
| 5 | He was then picked up and rode the entire parade sitting between Campese and Kearns . |
| 6 | ’ ‘ ard to bruise a ‘ tato , but even ‘ arder to sell a bunch of grapes that 's been picked up and dropped a few times . ’ |
| 7 | First , because it is evident that many of the problems which the Authority identified in 1985 when it established PNP were centred as much on professional attitudes as professional expertise — attitudes to children , to curriculum , to teaching methods , to parents , to ethnic minority groups , to gender issues — and indeed we have picked up and reported the resilience of many of the attitudes which the Authority sought to change . |
| 8 | I suspect he would have been rewarded by now had a private conversation of his on a car telephone not been picked up and leaked a couple of years ago . |
| 9 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 10 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 11 | Ace had sat up and discarded the ice-pack so that he could face her . |
| 12 | More important than that ( for medieval village buildings could have been swept away as easily as the Romans had swept away the native British buildings for their planned towns ) — a variety of ownerships and rights had grown up that precluded a unified plan even as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 13 | It was , however , also a period when complete adult suffrage was achieved , and in which a political consensus was built up that enabled the Labour Party to establish itself alongside the older parties , so that an element of working-class power developed without turning into a revolutionary force . |
| 14 | We want to settle in one school for a good period of time , because we have discovered how important are relationships , with both colleagues and classes , that have been built up and stood the test of time . |
| 15 | Eventually when the public are fed up and lodge a sufficient number of protests , governments will take action , and action was taken in 1991 when Parliament passed an Act called ‘ The Property Misdescriptions Act ’ . |
| 16 | So you must n't , not only must n't you worry you 've got to be perfectly made up and have a super figure you know while you 're making tanks or or whatever . |
| 17 | Each partner was to bring in £50 per share ; they were to meet once a month at least , with the accounts made up and settled every three months . |
| 18 | Alternatively , you can have a new will drawn up and revoke the old one . |
| 19 | ‘ I have tidied up and laid the fire for evening , madame . |
| 20 | Subsequently , the MBC has made available a number of new premises for rent to processors and has generally tidied up and improved the area using Industrial Improvement Area procedures . |
| 21 | Many conservatives in both countries think their leaders are washed up and need a kick in the pants . |
| 22 | in this place who have got up and done a day 's work before they 've come here ! |
| 23 | Yeah , twenty five says when once the householder has got up and locked the door and you start to stand outside and knock at the door saying sir open to us , but in answer he will say to you , I do not know where you are from , then you will start saying we ate and drank in front of you and we 've taught in our broad ways , but he will speak and say to you , I do not know where you are from , get away from me you are workers of unrighteousness |
| 24 | At some point he must have got up and opened the window . |
| 25 | What I am doing at the moment — pretending to have given up while backsliding every chance I get — is marginally better than full-time smoking ; the trouble is that it runs every risk of turning into it . |
| 26 | It ca n't have been the script , which tried unconvincingly to suggest multiple reconciliation under the spell of the Castello Brown ( the castle 's real-life name , believe me or not ) and then petered out , as if the adaptor had given up and left the cast to improvise . |
| 27 | Edouard thought of Isobel 's family , of her grandfathers , uncles , cousins , who had propped up and maintained an empire , who had fought , and ruled , in India , in Africa . |
| 28 | The recalcitrant firm , dependent on telephone selling , could n't afford to have its lines tied up and waved the white flag together with a cheque . |
| 29 | In July 1940 Maclaren-Ross was called up and joined the Essex Regiment , later transferring to the Suffolks . |
| 30 | Just like the other doctors , it has scrubbed up and donned a protective gown before starting work in Sacramento , California . |