Example sentences of "and [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 2 | The patients studied were seen and treated up to 3 hours from the onset of symptoms . |
| 3 | " 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 . |
| 4 | Whilst belaying you can look across a sweeping valley covered by vineyards and broken up by lines of cyprus trees . |
| 5 | Our way was up to one of the few glacier tongues that was n't too steep and broken up by crevasses . |
| 6 | Then he crouched over it and squared up to an imaginary ball . |
| 7 | Kathleen put her hands on her hips and squared up to him . |
| 8 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 9 | absolutely but that is n't quite the same as actually having been taken up and developed up to ninety six . |
| 10 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 11 | Duncan Henderson was pushed into a tree and capsized below a grade 4 fall in November and caught up by his buoyancy aid . |
| 12 | Now John Burnett found his good-natured and impressionable son falling under the spell of two far more intelligent men of dubious opinions , and caught up in a wild scheme for emigration to America . |
| 13 | Thus , once again , there is considerable potential for teachers to become confused between the relative demands of these two quite different approaches to moderation and caught up in a great deal of additional work . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Good food shops in the village , but a great saving can be made if the bulk of provision is bought in Grenoble and carried up by bus or car . |
| 16 | Rachaela walked into the area and squeezed up to the chest . |
| 17 | He was caught with his clothes in tatters trying to flee in a taxi and owned up to police . |
| 18 | Cheered and keyed up in expectation of the pleasant story-book sight in prospect , her hot hand squeezing the scone in her pocket , she followed the path as it passed under the line of windows , before it skirted the domed conservatory where flowers were grown for the house : cactus , geraniums , gloxinia , palms , bird of paradise , passion-flower , maidenhair fern , all throve here in damp and forceful luxury . |
| 19 | The hurricane-lamp was placed about twenty feet in front and pumped up to maximum brilliance while we lay sweating and mosquito-bitten in the shadows , fingering our cameras and the trigger of our temperamental Sun Gun , expecting that at any moment a curious snake would be drawn to the light from the shadows behind us , rather than from the cave ahead . |
| 20 | Leaving the boy sitting at the table , he went back to his desk and phoned up to Kate . |
| 21 | The Kawasaki cut through to St Paul 's as I 'd expected and accelerated up towards Holborn . |
| 22 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 23 | So er a a micro electrode was er fabricated and then put inside a cell and connected up with an amplifier . |
| 24 | Harriet tossed back her luxuriant mane of auburn hair , drank deeply of her wine and launched into tales of the ponies she had learned to ride on and grown up with , and of Blazer , her current horse . |
| 25 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 26 | Last night started out with spilt acid and built up to a pellmell slide down stairs , across motorways , into a baby shop , on out-of-control roller-skates . |
| 27 | ‘ If you are feeling bored and fed up with the daily routine , give the WI a try . |
| 28 | ARE YOU FEMALE , single , 18-28 and fed up with not getting replies from Get Personal ? |
| 29 | Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser . |
| 30 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |