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How To Use Tie up In A Sentence

  • It's great that she was able to tie up Super Smize's narrative, since half of these girls would have been so confused if they just encountered her in plainclothes without an explanation. Taking the boot off
  • If you can tie up your money for a while, fixed-term accounts tend to pay more. Times, Sunday Times
  • The manner of using arnotto is to tie up, in a linen rag, the quantity deemed sufficient, and put into half a pint of warm water over night. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
  • You get higher interest if you agree to tie up your savings for a long period.
  • In a marriage breakdown, tie up property transfers by deed of separation/divorce which is confirmed by court decree.
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  • He is looking for a midfield general and hopes to tie up the move this week. The Sun
  • The police are trying to tie up his escape from prison with the murder.
  • Not a large field, it was enough Nerger hoped to cause alarm and tie up valuable warships and minesweepers,
  • So they tie up a whole company and a soundstage filming you, just to keep you off the streets? SWIMMING TO CATALINA
  • So they tie up a whole company and a soundstage filming you, just to keep you off the streets? SWIMMING TO CATALINA
  • The boat pulled alongside and, without waiting for the helmsman to tie up, Carol jumped ashore. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • This product is made of resin powder and 4-ester. It has the characters of high insulating ability, alkali and acid proof, flexibility multi-color and is used to tie up all kinds of electric wires.
  • I need to tie up a few loose ends before I go on vacation.
  • It made me sad reading about that woman, to be driven to such a measure is indicative of how bad it actually is in some areas, but you have to admit, co-ercing a spacker to 'lift her nightie up' is up there with knock a door run and theiving bottles of milk off doorsteps .. not everyday for months/years on end. if it was your daughter? or is it ok because she was disabled? doesn't matter now though does it? they are both dead. only a harmless bit of fun. discuss? was gonna suggest your user name should be 'benni' 77, but i'd lose the moral high ground Army Rumour Service
  • At least it is safe to say that both series manage to avoid those horribly contrived plot twists whose only purpose is to tie up loose ends. Times, Sunday Times
  • She assisted me to tie up the mattrass; I discovering, at the same time, that one blanket would serve me till winter, could I persuade my sister, who slept with me, to keep my secret. Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
  • Hurry up. Tie up your shoelaces; we are late.
  • The 4-4 tie upholds a federal appeals court decision in Lotus's copyright infringement lawsuit.
  • I used tape to tie up the box.
  • I went into the office for an hour to tie up any loose ends .
  • Ask him also for fine string or twine to tie up the meat.
  • Shebala and his son Sheldon, 24, used lariats to tie up one of the animals legs force it to lie on the ground.
  • I cut a length of string to tie up the package.
  • Malvolio, to tie up his legs, perhaps to keep them from running away, these false knaves wore, some of them, ragged boots up to their thighs, while others had no crural coverings at all, and only rough sandals, such as the Indians there use, between their feet and the ground. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
  • I'm so fat my bathrobe won't tie up!
  • Don't tie up the phone lines making personal calls.
  • You get higher interest if you agree to tie up your savings for a long period.
  • I'm sorry we could not tie up the agreement.
  • In the coolness of early morning, the Venezuelan ketches tie up close to the town centre, tip their sails across the sidewalk to provide shade, and establish a floating market.
  • I went into the office for an hour to tie up any loose ends .
  • One way to access higher interest rates is to tie up money in a fixed-rate account for between one and five years.
  • If the server were to echo the download requests, the target machine would enter an endless loop which could tie up its resources and from which the only escape is a re-boot.
  • Thorpe greeted the cook and old Jackson Hines, the only two whom he knew, and set to work to tie up bundles of blankets, and to collect axes, peavies, and tools of all descriptions. The Blazed Trail
  • Our country will tie up with another country to host this exhibition.
  • I cut a length of string to tie up the package.
  • I need to tie up a few loose ends before I go on vacation.
  • Distin is understood to have already undergone a medical and has only the loose ends of a deal to tie up.
  • Good podcast to help tie up Season 3 I liked the "outro" too LOSTCasts 58: Through the Looking Glass
  • If you're feeling arty, use the whole leaves to tie up bundles of carrots, asparagus, or sliced zucchini.
  • She rejected almost all applicants for the post of a doctor's wife without examining their claims, on the ground of moral or physical defect -- as, for instance, you never would go and tie up poor Prosy to a wife that golloped. Somehow Good
  • There is an historic oak tree alongside the cooperage, which is said to have been used to tie up the Hudson's Bay Company's vessels in the earliest times when wharves were few and far between. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
  • It was just not, I guess, comprehendible that a man could come in with a mask and a gun, tie up four people, rob them, and leave with one of them. CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2006
  • The police are trying to tie up his escape from prison with the murder.
  • You can tie up your own tender at the dinghy docks or go ashore in one of the harbor launches.
  • ALLAHABAD: It is a collective effort of all that makes a good institution and as such a good vice-chancellor collects all these efforts and tie up all talents, opines Prof Rajen Harshe, V-C Allahabad WN.com - Articles related to Hooda will lead next Cong govt: Sonia
  • tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed
  • I used tape to tie up the box.
  • I need to tie up a few loose ends before I go on vacation.
  • We would tie up one more night; all hands at the cordelle and the poles, we would reach Mrs. O'Fallon's by noon, in time for dinner. The Rose of Old St. Louis
  • Can you tie up this parcel for me?
  • Could you tie up the parcel for me?
  • I really don't want Moffat to write Rose because he doesn't like her and I can see him writing her as a "clingy" ex-girlfriend if he felt forced to tie up the Doctor/Rose story. Doctor Who Season Five...potential serious spoiler.
  • If you've only got a few leaves then you can sling them in a bin bag, make a few air holes in it, tie up the top and leave it for a year or so.
  • I still had a few loose ends to tie up, but I had a pretty clear picture now of how they had scammed their way to a fortune. KICK BACK
  • A Bradford dad-of-two was blinded when a bungee cord he was using to tie up a deckchair sprang open and hit him in the eye.
  • I'm sorry we could not tie up the agreement.
  • In the busiest ports, such as London or Newcastle upon Tyne, where larger vessels were unable to tie up at the quay, smaller lighters were used as intermediaries to carry goods from ship to shore.
  • He would wear the sari and quickly tie up his long hair into a bun and appear on the stage in a drunken stupor.
  • Suppose there's fog all the way to Seattle, to the moment we tie up at the SVL Timber quay. HIGH STAND
  • Kingfisher confirmed that it hopes to tie up a deal within the next two weeks.
  • Elia would certainly rectify that and it is understood that Liverpool are keen to tie up a deal quickly in a bid to maintain momentum from the last-gasp weekend win over Bolton.
  • You can tie up your own tender at the dinghy docks or go ashore in one of the harbor launches.
  • There are still a few loose ends to tie up .
  • I'm so fat my bathrobe won't tie up!
  • The accusation in "Monopolizing the Master" is that, through winning over the James heirs as well as librarians wherever Jamesian material was stored, Edel was able to tie up the James papers for his all but exclusive use for more than a generation. The Afterlife of the Lion
  • Decide how much of your money you can afford to tie up and how much you might need to access, and then open accounts that meet both needs.
  • Do/Tie up your shoelaces, Rosie.
  • Basically, writers, the lesson to learn is to tie up your loose ends, and make sure that if you raise the stakes in your plot, you show how bad the devastation will be or what there is to lose, etc. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Storytellers: You Are Obligated To Deliver The Goods
  • “In the name of Merlin and Maugis,” answered a hoarse, disagreeable voice, “tie up your fourfooted demon there, or I come not at you.” The Talisman
  • Our country will tie up with another country to host this exhibition.
  • If you can tie up your money for a while, fixed-term accounts tend to pay more. Times, Sunday Times
  • Paterson followed in to tie up the score, his mission criminally interrupted by a yank at his jersey as he prepared to seize and ground the ball.
  • Our country will tie up with another country to host this exhibition.
  • This product is made of rubber and cotton cloth. It has the characters of good insulating ability, strong adhesive attraction and be used to tie up the joints of the electric wires below 380V.
  • It is uninhabited by man, but his mark is there: a convenient stake in the ground for dinghy tie up and, of course, the endless jetsam on the windward shore.
  • Tie up the top of the bag so the rubbish doesn't fall out.
  • `'My brother Cyrus and his crew will follow in our helicopter as soon as they tie up a pair of loose ends. INCA GOLD
  • The police are trying to tie up his escape from prison with the murder.
  • Hull stand-off Danny Washbrook took full advantage to step through and tie up the scores but centre Kirk Dixon couldn't land the conversion from a handy position.
  • We are hoping to tie up the deal by tomorrow.
  • She quickly changed from her nightclothes into the clothes in the bundle, tucking her trousers into her tie up, saddle boots and her shirt into her trousers.
  • There are still a few loose ends to tie up .
  • We had to tie up the ships' sails with short pieces of ropes.
  • The process of accession is long and complex, and can tie up a lot of the available resources of the Commission.
  • I used tape to tie up the box.
  • Shall I tie up your things in a parcel?
  • In anticipation, we could take the following steps: (a) keep mopping up forex inflows and tie up optional contracts for longer-term forex credit; (b) better align oil and gas pricing to international prices; (c) push for an agreement on GST implementation timelines in the first half of 2010 when states would be less apprehensive about their finances. Rediff.com
  • To eliminate the intergranular corrosion, it is necessary either to reduce carbon to very low levels, or to add titanium and columbium to tie up the carbon and nitrogen.
  • After harvesting June-bearing blackberries, boysenberries, and raspberries, cut spent canes back to the ground and tie up new ones as they develop.
  • I used tape to tie up the box.
  • If you can tie up your money for a while, fixed-term accounts tend to pay more. Times, Sunday Times
  • To be sure, jaywalkers put themselves and others at risk, and they can tie up traffic, but jaywalking is hardly the kind of offense that merits being maced.
  • Tie up the valve, unscrew the float, and buy a matching replacement.
  • As a result, the jobs of 10 longshoremen who used to unload and tie up the unrefined sugar have already been eliminated.
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  • As if to tie up the trend, New Yorkers are currently big on crudo, an Italian version of sushi.
  • On the other hand, he says, the production runs tie up money.
  • Shall I tie up your things in a parcel?
  • My husband had been badgering me for months to tie up some savings in the bonds.
  • Do your divisional managers know how much capital they tie up and what it costs?
  • If you can tie up your money for a while, fixed-term accounts tend to pay more. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tie up some yogurt in cheesecloth and hang it over a bowl for 4-8 hours. Last Night « PubliCola
  • Hurry up. Tie up your shoelaces; we are late.
  • Liverpool have reportedly sent representatives to Spain to tie up the signature of Sevilla youth player Antonio Cotan.
  • I thought I had become fairly politically correct, but there clearly remain a few loose ends for me to tie up before I become a fully-fledged 'identikit' parliamentary candidate. Its Goodbye to Humour.
  • You get higher interest if you agree to tie up your savings for a long period.
  • But fellow miner Rio Tinto was up after reports the firm may be forced to "Australianize" its board as a condition to its $19.5 billion tie up with Chinese metals firm Chinalco. WN.com - Articles related to Sony Surprises With Q1 Profit and Raises Outlook
  • Use rubber bands or inexpensive cable ties to temporarily tie up appliance cords and window blinds.
  • I cut a length of string to tie up the package.
  • Marijke and Tony had had to carry on downriver for another mile or so before they found a wharf where they could tie up. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Tie up the top of the bag so the rubbish doesn't fall out.
  • Us chillun used to tie up de 'bacco, what us stole f'um Miss Annie, in de under-arm part of de long loose sleeves of our shirts. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2

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