Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many different groups are involved in the pollination of modern angiosperms and , in rain forest , this seems to be rather bound up with the level in the forest at which the flowers are presented . |
| 2 | to be laughingly bundled up to the template , |
| 3 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 4 | Large leaves may need support from a cane or , in the case of ficus , can be gently rolled up with an elastic band . |
| 5 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 6 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 9 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 10 | Any complaints from tenants will be swiftly followed up within one working day where possible . |
| 11 | The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery . |
| 12 | The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage . |
| 13 | Do n't be so puffed up with your own perfections as to imagine that because other people allow themselves liberties you can not take , therefore they must be wicked . |
| 14 | Probably she 'll be so wrapped up in it she 'll feel differently . ’ |
| 15 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 16 | Far from Freud 's concept of the super-ego being one which assumes the super-ego to be entirely built up from outside , from social relationships with parents and educators only — as Parsons — claims — it , too , contains instinctual elements . |
| 17 | Fitness was , as ever , a big problem and is a deficiency which will not be easily made up during the Championship . |
| 18 | These calculations can be easily set up on a computer spreadsheet and variations may be performed to determine the best-looking selection according to the investor 's risk-return preferences . |
| 19 | Oily spillages , greasy marks , and other dust and dirt created while carrying out messy d-i-y tasks can be easily cleaned up with Nouvelle 's new Mighty Wipes . |
| 20 | When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first . |
| 21 | But this is something else again , having socialist ideas is one thing , betraying your country another , people who do that have no rights at all , that 's my opinion , they ought to be just put up against a wall and shot . |
| 22 | The Great Central Railway , from Marylebone to Manchester via Sheffield , opened in 1900 , the last great trunk railway construction , limped its way through the century to be finally chopped up into pieces and closed down in 1969 . |
| 23 | Will that be already weighed up into a box will it ? |
| 24 | Almost by definition , crises are periods when the normally routinized operations of the bureaucracy are insufficient or can not be relied on , when decisions have to be quickly pushed up through the chain of command , and where unusually large and direct role in controlling policy implementation has to be taken by political leaders . |
| 25 | The news came as British Olympic chiefs demanded that confusion over the status of clenbuterol the drug at the centre of the controversy should be quickly cleared up by their international counterparts . |
| 26 | And no doubt now he expected her to be suitably softened up by her two days ' grieving , ready to fall back into his arms on the strength of one calculated gesture . |
| 27 | Thus , in his chapter ‘ The Elimination of Metaphysics ’ , Ayer cites a number of philosophical problems which he believes can be rapidly cleared up through a proper understanding of language . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought Jamie would be more cut up about Hugh Puddephat , ’ Edward said idly . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's certainly wiser to be more covered up in the sun , ’ she says . |
| 30 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |