Example sentences of "and [verb] up by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 2 | The house is seized by the demolition contractors , its park invaded and churned up by the tractors and trailers of the timber merchant . |
| 3 | They had left the path and turned up by the side of the long Nissen hut when Len paused and , half turning to Joe , he said , ‘ You know , you still did n't answer my question earlier on information concerning one Joseph Jebeau . |
| 4 | Along the top of the bank was the Ben Tee path , leading to a stile and wending up by the burn — rather than towards the peak — so I just headed over the dried-out moor for the steady ascent to the summit . |
| 5 | I am preparing a big adhortatio for everyone who has not yet been utterly suffocated and swallowed up by the present age . " |
| 6 | It took years before the business really took off with the addition of more and more synthetics , starting with the discovery of nylon and followed up by the discovery of acrylics and polyester . |
| 7 | They took the road past Mr Zamoyski 's shop and pulled up by the bowling green . |
| 8 | One of the spoke machines from the Road Vehicle Shop was adapted ; cutter block was quickly made and set up by the tool-room , but two dimensions could not be attained in this process . |
| 9 | However outré , each item emerges looking chewed over and softened up by the editorial enzymes . |
| 10 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 11 | The greens were crudely protected and kept up by the Artisans . |
| 12 | But knowing , as I did , that there was little to return to in England , and buoyed up by the sense of adventure and risk brought on by the thought of joining the Legion , I knew I would be staying . |
| 13 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 14 | The clothes lines were taken down and rolled up by the dustbins , together with the props . |
| 15 | Differing tendencies are brought within the Party fold and taken up by the leadership ; otherwise , they perish . |
| 16 | The trend was started by The Independent , and taken up by The Guardian , more for commercial reasons than as a principled stand . |
| 17 | Di Revelle from the Red Cross says I 'd like to see it introduced in schools and taken up by the community . |
| 18 | There is even talk of rebuilding the Kaiser 's Schloss , damaged in the war and blown up by the communists in 1950 . |
| 19 | It had been all right finding the hospital , but on the way back he took a wrong turn and ended up by the seaside . |
| 20 | It makes no sense to talk of unqualified ‘ parents rights ’ , and parental participation in investigations and case conferences — one of the concerns voiced in the Rochdale report and picked up by the press . |
| 21 | Their authority is based on the law passed in 1939 that governs Italy 's entire artistic heritage ( legge di tutela No.1089 ) and backed up by the specialist department for underwater archaeology , set up in 1988 within the central office of the Ministero dei Beni Culturali , with the cooperation of the Ministero della Marina Mercantile ( whose regulations are enforced by the harbour offices of Italy 's ports ) . |
| 22 | Hitler was so very strong , and backed up by the Italians could put all the weight of his Panzers against the Soviets . |
| 23 | He 's helping in a scheme started by the Rural Development Commission , and backed up by the Workout Charity . |