How To Use Tied up In A Sentence
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PUNE: The IIT Bombay Alumni Association (IITBAA) - Pune Chapter has tied up with the Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at the IIM-A for the benefit of creative minds and technocrats who qualify for Innovations 2011 ', to be organised from January 8, 2011 in Pune.
The Times of India
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Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. —
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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She is wearing blue eye liner and blue eye shadow and blue lip gloss and she has her hair tied up high with a blue hairband and two blue barrettes holding her hair in place.
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Most of us wouldn't choose a career where everything we interact with is prettied up and dumbed down.
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Stretched out below was a chain of freighters tied up alongside the commercial docks, cranes and gantries cluttering the foreshore.
CORMORANT
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I sat in the buggy, holding the reins over the trembling, wild-eyed bay, while William descended and, with great dignity, tied up the disabled swingletree.
A Circuit Rider's Wife
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Traffic was tied up for three hours because of the parade.
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So Nur al-Din abode awhile, eating and drinking and making merry and bidding and forbidding those who tended the horses; and whoso neglected or failed to fodder those tied up in the stable wherein was his service, he would thrown down and beat with grievous beating and lay him by the legs in bilboes of iron.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But directly, as a Mississippi regiment passed by, he noticed at the head of one of the companies an old man, almost as old as himself, his clothes torn, and ragged from long marching; shoeless, his feet tied up in sack-cloth and his old slouch hat aflop over his ears.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
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Where once the harbour might have had a currach or two tied up, the inlet is now festooned with yachts and dinghies and motor boats and punts of all shapes and sizes.
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Ideas about interlinguas are intimately tied up with ideas about the representation of meaning.
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I also think it's tied up with people looking after themselves, wanting to socialise without always having to include alcohol.
Times, Sunday Times
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I crouched down without making a sound and started slithering like a snake through the bushy tomato plants that Mr. Russo had tied up on stakes.
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This is a rather different issue, and is tied up with the Board's wish not to commit itself to an increase in its total spend until it completed its comprehensive review.
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By the time Michael O'Loughlin first tied up his bootlaces at the SCG back in 1994, the landscape of Australian rules football for indigenous players had already began changing.
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But fertility, of course, has always been tied up with deep emotional and moral issues.
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But some people who used the product to access the money tied up in their property face a clawback or a reduction of their social welfare payments.
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My money is tied up in a trust fund.
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The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
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I began to tell her stories that involved castrations and how men have all their power and strength tied up in their testicles.
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A landlord who was tied up and threatened at knifepoint while balaclava-clad raiders ransacked his Brentwood pub has told of his horrific ordeal.
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The gang tied up the security guard and put a gag in his mouth.
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One passenger train south was tied up just beyond the wreck, and in about an hour and a half the wrecker appeared in charge of the trainmaster.
Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
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His installations, made of scrap objects and tied up with tangled roping, dominate the landscape.
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The books were all tied up with tape.
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I mean, Dad is already tied up and --- ' `Happy as a sandboy ,' Dilys agreed.
TICKLED PINK
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A one-half microfarad condenser is placed in the receiver circuit at each station so that the line will not be tied up should some subscriber inadvertently leave his receiver off its hook.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
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Let not my length and my breadth nor yet my bulk delude thee, with respect to the son of Adam; for he, of the excess of his guile and his cunning, fashions for me a thing called a hobble and hobbles my four legs with ropes of palm-fibres, bound with felt, and makes me fast by the head to a high picket, so that I remain standing and can neither sit nor lie down, being tied up.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
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It has large sums of cash tied up in businesses over which it exercises little control.
Times, Sunday Times
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I also think it's tied up with people looking after themselves, wanting to socialise without always having to include alcohol.
Times, Sunday Times
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The country's anti-nuclear policy of the past several decades has very much been tied up with combating the influence of France in the Pacific.
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Her dark, umber brown hair was tied up, yet still the long ponytail reached almost four inches over her shoulder.
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They would not fire until the launch had tied up at the jetty because they would have a far better chance of hitting a stationary target.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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I couldn't really figure out what Kevin did, besides drive some cars and get tied up at Stifler's impromptu bachelor party, replete with strippers and the bride's parents bursting in.
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Of course being in the scullery is much better than being tied up.
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Her blonde hair is tied up in a simple ponytail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Serious business will be on hold, political time and capital tied up, and the ground rules uncertain.
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However, it is unclear how much natural gas is tied up in clathrates.
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The boat was seen upturned and had bumped into others that were tied up.
Times, Sunday Times
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And there I was-dark, red hair, messily tied up and in dusty clothes - whoopee.
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In fact, she'd struck up the friendliest relationship with Boxer, the old schnauzer always tied up in Tom Sawyer's yard, two houses down.
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Once they were airside, they threatened and tied up 16 members of staff.
Times, Sunday Times
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She stood in the hallway in another one of her typical flowing dresses, her hair tied up this time and a small pair of silver glasses resting on her nose.
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They appear to be tied up in a political knot while dealing with the Sri Lankan government, which is itself locked in internecine party warfare.
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Such small articles as hat-cases, hand-bags, etc., are subjected to it; an officer devoted to the duty comes with a huge pair of 'pincers' with some neat little leaden discs, which he squeezes on the strings which have tied up the article.
A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
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A shank was held to a female guard's throat as she was handcuffed to a chair and tied up with duct tape.
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The boat was tied up to a small wooden platform built along the riverbank; she could see the mast protruding above a thicket of shrubs.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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I say, Polly," lie said suddenly; "you don't know how kind of squirmy it made me feel, in there to-day, with all those little fellows, the one with the brace on his ankle, and the one with his eye tied up where they'd taken out a piece, and all the rest of them.
Half a Dozen Girls
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Not one of those rustic wassals of the Ouse of Widdlers, but ad his air curled and his shirt-sheaves tied up with pink ribbing as he led to the macy dance some appy country gal, with a black velvit boddice and a redd or yaller petticoat, a hormylu cross on her neck, and a silver harrow in her air!
Burlesques
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Her behaviour is tied up with her feelings of guilt.
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The shortage of teachers is tied up with the issue of pay.
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They all had rudrakshas, tulasi-malas, jasmine flowers tied up in their hair, and they were all praying, doing meditation and chanting mantras.
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One, it's Venice, which doesn't need to be prettied up.
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Tied up with ropes, magician Harry Houdini is lowered into a glass tank filled with water.
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While the youngsters played handball against the gable wall, held boxing matches in a nearby field or tied up a couple of old socks as a football.
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Its reassuring to find oneself almost agreeing with Melanie again. .but: laughable as it is for this dreadful new labour hack to pretend that paying to be tied up and flogged is only depraved if you wear the wrong costume; isnt the public exposure of depravity its own kind of lechery (to paraphrase Dr Johnson)?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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He was a droll sight, with a battered shako and trousers made of old gunny sacks tied up with twine.
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Using the spikes of his ballista, all tied up into a belt, Ryud holstered it up to his shoulders, intending it to shield his charge.
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I guess I expected you to be in jeans and chaps with a horse tied up somewhere!
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On this face and that wall, bullet holes decorated the next layer, of dumpiness and squarishness, prettied up on the front with plaster and with bright, childish advertising on the side.
SeeLight:
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It seems to be tied up with a rather Victorian work ethic where poor people are demonised for idleness and deserve their fate.
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The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
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The two companies are closely tied up with each other.
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Opera has been closely tied up with social and political issues.
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It was tied up with string and read in scribbled, almost illegible, penmanship.
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He was gagged and beaten and the raiders then went upstairs where they tied up the second brother who was also badly beaten.
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It begins where the mules are tied up on the trailhead, and was originally worn out by bighorn sheep.
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The best cattle were killed and the meat salted and sun-dried; and abundance of red peppers and sweet potatoes were gathered; and the tall pinang-trees were climbed for the spicy betel nut, the sirih-leaf was tied up in bundles, and every man filled his tobacco pouch and lime box to the brim, so that he might not want any of the materials for chewing the refreshing betel during the journey.
The Malay Archipelago
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She also happens to be tied up with a cruel and wealthy Duke who wants her to swing on his trapeze.
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She had dark red hair that was tied up behind her head.
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The gang tied up a security guard.
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So Nur al-Din abode awhile, eating and drinking and making merry and bidding and forbidding those who tended the horses; and whoso neglected or failed to fodder those tied up in the stable wherein was his service, he would thrown down and beat with grievous beating and lay him by the legs in bilboes of iron.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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We tied up alongside a barge.
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The sadhu was a heavy man too, with long white hair tied up in a knot and many beads around his neck.
Undefined
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But Donna's heartbreak is all tied up in what happened to Rose ... because it was about creating this false Doctor ... and Rose is the one the Doctor was happiest with, despite everything people say, Rose is the one he would run to embrace.
Doctor Who...another way to fix JE...
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She stood in the hallway in another one of her typical flowing dresses, her hair tied up this time and a small pair of silver glasses resting on her nose.
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The thieves left her tied up with rope but she wriggled free.
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Her tiny feet were wrapped in a woollen bundle, and rested on hot bricks, and her aching head was tied up in red flannel bandages that smelled of brandy; she had a mustard plaster on her chest, a cayenne pepper 'gargle' for her throat, and a cup of hot ginger tea stood at her elbow; her pretty nose was swollen out of shape, her bright eyes were red and inflamed, and little blisters had broken out all over those kissable lips; a very damp white handkerchief lay in her lap, and two great tears, that it had not yet wiped away, ran down her flushed cheeks.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Business loans tied up enormous amounts of regulatory capital that the bank would have preferred to invest elsewhere.
Times, Sunday Times
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My money was tied up when my blood brother establish a motortruck we could do some money on.
All about credit cards
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she's tied up at the moment and can't see you
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The kittens had been tied up in a sack and thrown in the river.
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I tied up in the lateral basin, pulled out the Thermos bottle of tea and the package of sandwiches that I had brought with me.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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All it takes is for several Senators to put pressure on President Obama and vola, BP loses out; BP has billions tied up in American oil fields e.g., in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska and as such is highly exposed in the US market.
OIL FOR TERRORISM
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The docker's strike tied up the port.
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Our company has tied up with another firm to support the project.
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Happiness, in this scheme of things, is always tied up with what happens, especially what happens by luck or chance.
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These vicious killers will surely strike again if the owners fail to ensure that the dogs are not confined to kennel or tied up at night-time.
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They were driven into the security depot by six masked raiders carrying handguns who tied up 14 workers.
The Sun
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She is wearing blue eye liner and blue eye shadow and blue lip gloss and she has her hair tied up high with a blue hairband and two blue barrettes holding her hair in place.
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If you minimize your working capital - that is, the amount tied up in receivables, payables, and inventory - you maximize your cash flow.
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At a push, the bag itself could be constructed from a sheet of paper or small carrier bag tied up with an elastic band or bit of string.
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Two 16-year-old boys were among six people held at gunpoint and tied up in a restaurant robbery.
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The terrible figure of Draupadi, as she dishevels her long black hair, is the very impersonation of revenge; and a Hindoo audience never fails to shudder at her fearful vow -- that the straggling tresses shall never again be tied up until the day when Bhima shall have fulfilled his vow, and shall then bind them up whilst his fingers are still dripping with the blood of Duhsasana.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France
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I absolutely loved the idea of escapology and had a good go at it and ended up like a lot of children, tied up in ropes and having to call for help.
NPR Topics: News
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Masked raiders tied up a security guard and stole thousands of pounds' worth of computer equipment from Motorola, a court heard.
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The crew now puttied up the gun bays in the wings and squeezed in 125 gallons on each side.
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It tied up productive capital in unproductive areas, rather than releasing funds for the next generation of innovative businesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can't think what it would cost to furnish a single shot with, say, a street full of period cars, all polished or dirtied up to the requisite degree of authenticity.
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First, writes Science Daily, "because the greatest portion of the expense is tied up in safely returning the crew and spacecraft to earth.
'Hundred-Year Starship' Would Send Space Explorers On One-Way Mission To Mars
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the phone was tied up for almost an hour
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For Thailand, a medium-sized country - whose destiny is closely tied up with the global economy and liberal democracy - drifting along rudderless in the tumultuous current of world events is not an option.
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Music has always been important in Brazilian culture - it has been a vehicle for rebellion, but has also been closely tied up with regional and national identity.
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Many of the same themes dominate in bathing suits, with bikinis leading the market but prettied up in charming flower prints, elegant stripes and bold patterns.
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Why, ye're tied up in a knot, laddie, and ye've proke ta pest rod; and pring it along, Scoody lad, and ton't get ta line roond ta stanes.
Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai
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The country's anti-nuclear policy of the past several decades has very much been tied up with combating the influence of France in the Pacific.
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In the agrarian life of the past, the time and energies of young people were much more tied up with their families.
Divergent Realities: the Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents
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Our company has tied up with another firm to support the project.
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Much of the company's success has been tied up with its campaigning approach to the pursuit of social and environmental issues.
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Such places are more gourmand than gourmet, tied up with the wrong kind of greed and a vulgar desire to impress.
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Stretched out below was a chain of freighters tied up alongside the commercial docks, cranes and gantries cluttering the foreshore.
CORMORANT
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Our company has tied up with another firm to support the project.
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The trouble with films is that we've come to expect them to follow a basic formula, usually involving all loose endings being tied up and a happy ending.
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He tied up the present with ribbon.
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These rapidly built, but artistically maligned buildings are now prettied up with decorative flourishes and used for museums and churches.
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This was the old part of the port, just a small jetty; and suddenly there she was, the Jihun, tied up fore and aft.
KARA KUSH
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While the woman tied up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man could only stare ahead, dumbstruck.
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Some billions of pounds of assets are tied up in closed-end funds, a figure that could double within five years as more companies close their life books.
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A car runs over the bugbear while the fae escapes and the goblin is tied up.
Dragon Wytch-Yasmine Galenorn « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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We tied up alongside the quay.
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Sure a Kimber is much nicer out of the box than a 10/22 and yes, if you trick it out with all the bells and whistles you'll have a bunch of money tied up in it.
Trigger Happy
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The gang tied up a security guard.
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A little dog tied up outside of Chin's is lonely, but people stop now and then to pet him and tell him how cute he is.
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One had a black moustache and had his hair tied up.
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Sale and leaseback allows companies to free up capital tied up in their movable and immovable assets.
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Outside the gale howled, the rain lashed and the wind chimes clattered in spite of being tied up with string.
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Headlines at the time described a £15. 3m legacy - a lairdly sum, perhaps - but £8. 1m of that was tied up in the castle and surrounding estate, and a further £4. 6m in contents.
Undefined
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That red tape is a result of an endless stream of initiatives from the government, which are usually tied up with the private sector.
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With the capital of the private mortgage insurers tied up in backstopping those earlier policies, the industry has ceded substantial market share to the FHA since 2008.
Mortgage Insurers Rise on FHA Proposal
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The launch reached the shore and tied up to a floating pontoon connected by a gangway to the dock.
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All tied up Dare to bare a tanned midriff.
The Sun
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So hop on board as nautical is a trend to get tied up in.
The Sun
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One had a black moustache and had his hair tied up.
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In this arrangement, cornflowers and various shrub roses are set off with sprigs of sage and lemon balm, and tied up with a bow for a little extra punch.
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There was a boat tied up at the jetty.
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Everything was tied up with the dreams she kept having.
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The ponies were tied up in the shade to the branches of a row of gum trees which divided the two pitches.
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In the agrarian life of the past, the time and energies of young people were much more tied up with their families.
Divergent Realities: the Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents
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Her blonde hair is tied up in a simple ponytail.
Times, Sunday Times
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The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
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They simply bridge the gaping holes left by four years of seat-of-the-pants plotting that suddenly have to be tied up with a neat bow as if they were intended from the start.
MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica
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The gang tied up a security guard.
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I'm afraid we can't meet till Wednesday - I'm tied up on Monday and Tuesday.
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You can soak them overnight in cold water, but we recommend boiling and soaking because it cuts the time your stovetop is tied up.
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A dozen officers were tied up with filling out reports for two and a half hours before they rounded off their shift with a patrol in the police van.
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The smiling woman was dressed casually in a pair of denim cut-offs and a simple baby blue tank top, her chestnut hair tied up in a pony tail.
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Natai tied up his hair with a ribbon and pushed the forelock form his eyes.
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At the end of the film all the loose ends are neatly tied up.
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Tied up at the office , " he said genially. " There were some accounts I had to straighten.
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The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
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Protesters tied up the traffic for three hours today.
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Her hood had been left back and her glossy raven hair had been tied up with a deep lilac ribbon.
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I don't know what kind of hairbrained vow he had tied up in it, but with the little ceremony disappeared every trace of restraint, and we plunged head over ears into the saturnalia of delights that was an old-time county fair.
Hillsboro People
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I was about to signal for music when a little six-year-old girl waddled up to me with her yellow sunflower sandals on, and a simple summer outfit, her hair tied up in pigtails.
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It was almost twilight when they tied up at the Angle Inlet boatyard.
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Bolsheviks Bolshephobia books bibliophobia bound (being) or tied up merinthophobia bowel movements (painful) defecaloesiophobia brain disease meningitophobia bridges (crossing) gephyrophobia buildings (high) batophobia bullets ballistophobia (see also missiles) bulls taurophobia buried alive (being) taphephobia cancer carcinomophobia cats ailurophobia
Pangsuan Diary Entry
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She tied up her hair in a bun and jammed a shapeless felt hat down over it.
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The gang tied up the security guard and put a gag in his mouth.
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Now, as another historical note, when I was a kid the most popular kind of lights were the big-bulb multi-colored ones, which didn't really have much class, but sure prettied up the living room.
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That is tied up with the elements of the offence, of course, in the first place.
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Acquisitions appear scattergun, often tied up with his 'greensteel' strategy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus, with his head tied up, and secretly lamenting the unornamental figure he now presented to the eyes of his partner and charmer, Quimby resumed the game.
Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes
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With the pattern of exclusive deals extending to new netbooks, smaller companies warn that mobile Web access could be tied up entirely.
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The gang tied up the security guard and put a gag in his mouth.
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As a long-time lawyer, I know that some members of my profession would run the risk of becoming so tied up in connecting at TheBarAfterWork that it might compromise their existing business relationships.
Beyond the Underground:
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The author tied up all the loose ends of the story in the final chapter.
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Christianity in Africa is tied up with its colonial past.
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The boat was seen upturned and had bumped into others that were tied up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here's the way it works: Every so often, as I listen or otherwise get my tongue tied up in knots over you, you open your mouth and begin to talk back, thus beginning an amicable colloquy.
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He published his recollection, noting that "We closed the eyes completely, and placed silver coins upon them, and with a pocket-handkerchief we tied up the jaw, which had already begun to fall.
Screaming Mummies!
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There they found two boats tied up alongside the wharf, waiting to unload their cargo of dolphin corpses.
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I also think it's tied up with people looking after themselves, wanting to socialise without always having to include alcohol.
Times, Sunday Times
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`I thought you were going to be completely tied up with this timber thing that Jeremy has sicked you on to.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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The graphics have been prettied up, but the rest of the game has been completely moronized and user-friendlized to foot the bill of I-don't-know-who.
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I tied up in the lateral basin, pulled out the Thermos bottle of tea and the package of sandwiches that I had brought with me.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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So I tied up a two-hook rig which had a big hook on the surface carrying a big crust, and a smaller hook 4ins below it carrying a piece of flake that simulated a piece that was sinking from the crust.
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And the boats I've seen tied up have all been out on the jetties or moored to buoys.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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I've just modified it to use the window.location.href as the initial search query, and prettied up the output as a nestable unordered list.
Recursive Backlinks - Freshblog
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A lorry driver kidnapped by armed robbers and tied up in a warehouse said today he thought he was going to die.
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The men fed the cattle and milked the cows and tied up the dog.
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Her golden blond hair hung in perfect ringlets, always tied up with a bright ribbon.
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While the bride was changing to her infare dress, older hands quickly took down the bedsteads, tied up the flock ticks and shuck ticks in coverlids and quilts, shoved them back into the corners so as to make room for the frolic and dancing.
Blue Ridge Country
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Our company has tied up with another firm to support the project.
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Prince William managed to stand one of the world's most eligible women up last week when he got tied up foxhunting.
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I didn't feel like getting too prettied up or anything.
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An attacker can be quite literally tied up in an excruciatingly painful arm twist in seconds.
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My hair was tied up in a ponytail with a ribbon, and my face looked fresh with lip gloss and mascara.
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My previous attempt at the record was a valiant attempt to drive the car while tied up by one leg.
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White's a bit tied up so Buckley anticipates Ba3 and prepares in the event of a Bishop exchange to bring his Rook into the action on c5 or a5.
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In a series of heavy ledgers and brown paper packages tied up with string, the more than 60-year-old data were preserved, recorded in the neat copperplate script of the 1930s teachers.
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Because of their Kesh, Sikh men wear their hair tied up in a bun and hidden by a turban.
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Love does not involve giving fancy parcels tied up with big red bows.
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Tall perennials will look and fare better if they are staked or tied up to avoid slumping over on the ground.
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The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
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He was wearing a ripped coat, tied up with string at the waist, and he sat with his feet tucked under his legs on an exposed crate, the tarpaulin turned back neatly around him.
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I'm sorry, she's tied up at the moment.
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The project (not so much a blog, don't worry) is an ongoing compilation of anonymous, mailed-in confessional postcards prettied up with thematic drawings or collages.
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Braddock had all his money tied up in stocks and the crash left him ruined.
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A bed at one corner, with coarse curtains tacked up at the feet to the ceiling; because the curtain-rings were broken off; but a coverlid upon it with a cleanish look, though plaguily in tatters, and the corners tied up in tassels, that the rents in it might go no farther.
Clarissa Harlowe
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We tied up on a jetty on Havelock Island with blue boats bobbing in its bay and rising hills, covered in forests, as a background.
