Example sentences of "up [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 2 | By the time the gay movement started in 1970 the gay friends I had were people I had picked up or met through a pick-up ; I probably knew about half a dozen gay people intimately . |
| 3 | The business might one day be sold off , wound up or nationalised by the host government . |
| 4 | Now I I think I would like to ask the county to come in and deal with this question of how much of their forty one thousand two hundred is new build and how much is gon na be taken up or provided by the conversion . |
| 5 | Moreover , the herb can be planted without disturbance to the roots , almost immediately after buying , whereas those sent through the post may spend many days travelling in inadequate packaging , having been dug up or removed from a container . |
| 6 | Fall-rise and rise-fall tones , however , can be quite difficult to recognise when they are extended over tails , since their characteristic pitch movements are often broken up or distorted by the structure of the syllables they occur on . |
| 7 | The concrete slabs were taken up and replaced with a crazy paving patio , and gradually they developed their plans , as money allowed . |
| 8 | It had been decided in July 1944 that the Cabinet Committee on post-War Civil Aviation should be wound up and replaced by a Minister responsible specifically for this area of policy . |
| 9 | Secondly , anything suggested by the Progressive Democrats has to be automatically suspect , on the grounds that the Pee Dees are a miserable bunch of motherfuckers who , when Sam Snort grasps the reins of power , will all be rounded up and interned for an indefinite period . |
| 10 | The feeling was soughing through them , every face was turned fully towards him , features naked , eyes widened ( they were too expectant , too dependent on the next sally , their wills must be gathered up and channelled towards an irresistible action ) . |
| 11 | Thérèse sat up and fumbled for the light-switch that dangled from a cord beside the bed . |
| 12 | Well , in the end the inevitable happened — Illtyd got fed up and called off the engagement , and thereafter ‘ Jilted by Illtyd ’ became a byword in Hut 4 . |
| 13 | There 's little dawdling to sniff flowers now , just giddy , breakneck pop ; ‘ In Love For The Very First Time ’ is gushing and gossipy , while ‘ Be Your Baby ’ is '60s girl group sentiment wised up and flung into the backroom of the Camden Falcon . |
| 14 | A moment later he felt himself picked up and flung against the wall . |
| 15 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 16 | Now this is the time when you must watch them , because it can take from two to two days , two hours from two , two hours to two days to regain control of the brain , depending on the person and if it 's , happens outside and they want to get away , stress the fact you get up and run under a bus and they do n't mean to obviously |
| 17 | As soon as the show was over her dog would get up and run to the kitchen ready to receive his daily rations . |
| 18 | When I slept I would dream that one came , and drove on past without knowing I was here ; then I would wake up and run to the road looking for a tail light disappearing . |
| 19 | When the men who are coming towards us have passed , climb back up and run to the place where the staging descends to the street . |
| 20 | erm because I 'd phoned up and asked for them , er my secretary had phoned up and asked for a meeting with her but the response was we 're not allowed to meet with you , so we said okay , cos it 's public money and things |
| 21 | POLICE searched a hospital yesterday after an ex-patient was tied up and strangled with a scarf . |
| 22 | His younger brother Philip was tied up and locked in the boot of a car for three hours while the gang made their getaway . |
| 23 | His younger brother Philip was tied up and locked in the boot of a car for three hours to stop the family raising the alarm while the thugs made their getaway . |
| 24 | Richard got up and balanced on the ball of one foot as if he had been seized by an attack of cramp . |
| 25 | Benstede got up and crossed to the bed in the far comer . |
| 26 | Merrill got up and crossed to the stationery cupboard . |
| 27 | The precise criteria and procedures whereby schools were included in the project are discussed at length elsewhere in this report , but we may note that a set of guidelines for school participation was drawn up and developed by the Project Coordinating Team ( see Appendix 3 ) and that these gave direction to schools as they established library committees and developed their plans . |
| 28 | This sub system was set up and developed by the team who have retained responsibility for writing and testing programs for any new reporting requirement . |
| 29 | It was clear from the work done then that , even after a full year , major changes in unemployment , self-employment , and employment taken up and ended within the group , were still occurring at a high rate . |
| 30 | But somehow the little orphan survived the ordeal , as she also later survived the farce of being crated up and flown to the Mara game reserve when still only six months old , to be shown to the Pope . |