Example sentences of "and [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 " For which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed , and given up into the hands of wicked men , and to suffer death upon the cross .
2 The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future .
3 Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself .
4 Rachaela walked into the area and squeezed up to the chest .
5 Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty .
6 ‘ If you are feeling bored and fed up with the daily routine , give the WI a try .
7 Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser .
8 Session 1992 — 3 A programme of events will be discussed and drawn up at the June meeting .
9 Session 1992–3 A programme of events will be discussed and drawn up at the June meeting .
10 This vast stocktaking and forward-planning exercise was commissioned by Richard Luce in 1990 , and drawn up with the aid of 44 discussion papers and 3,000 participants .
11 With loop-in wiring , the wires are labelled carefully , and drawn up into the space above the ceiling , where they should be reconnected in a junction box , in exactly the same way that they were connected in the ceiling rose , and a cable taken from this junction box to the light fitting through the hole in the ceiling ( if the new light fitting is in the same place ) .
12 And he went on : ‘ And if we 're at home , we make sure we 've eaten and washed up before the show . ’
13 I am preparing a big adhortatio for everyone who has not yet been utterly suffocated and swallowed up by the present age . "
14 Now , on Saturday morning , she thumped on the cottage door and at the same time leaned back from her ample waist and called up at the casement window .
15 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 .
16 This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue .
17 He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close .
18 However outré , each item emerges looking chewed over and softened up by the editorial enzymes .
19 ( The asses probably owe something to Koenig 's native Bavaria , where uxorious cows are garlanded and brought up to the Alpine pastures each summer . )
20 Clayton was adopted by his aunt and uncle and brought up in the working class brewery town of Tadcaster , North Yorkshire .
21 Born and brought up in the area , unlike other members of the group who had lived locally for Periods of one to seven years .
22 Members of the Korean minority have started to question the exclusivity of a Japan which has denied citizenship and certain basic human rights even to those born and brought up in the country .
23 The people were not necessarily born and brought up in the same neighbourhood ; many are upwardly mobile ( unlike the inner-city people ) .
24 Like Karim , Hanif Kureishi was born of a Pakistani father and an English mother and brought up in the London borough of Bromley .
25 A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong .
26 ‘ After all , I was born and brought up in the north of Scotland .
27 The inquest heard how Mr Ryder was born and brought up in the Huyton area of Liverpool .
28 Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War .
29 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 .
30 ‘ What I mean is , they probably had some sort of … lover 's quarrel , Gebrec went storming out in a rage and charged up to the belvedere to cool off .
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