| Larne was towed to Poros and beached, and there she stayed for three months while she was patched up. |
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| Known as septal defects, the holes can typically be patched up with surgery. |
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| Instead of his head, Jack has a different part of his anatomy patched up with vinegar and brown paper. |
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| Or will they simply be patched up with a few Elastoplasts, given a packet of Disprin, and sent home to die? |
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| The school accused the Council of dragging its heels over a replacement for a flat roof which was constantly being patched up because of leaks. |
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| One unlucky 7-year-old a few streets away gets burnt by a spent bullet, is patched up by a US first aid post and sent home. |
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| It is patched up but it would be a generous gesture on your part to see her and atone for our collective sins. |
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| Always good to see London's essential utilities being patched up and repaired swiftly. |
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| Marx argued that capitalism could not be patched up to make it a fair system. |
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| Quite a few of the houses are dilapidated, paint flaked off rotting wood, patched up with corrugated iron boards. |
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| The troops' base camp was a burned-out hotel, which had been patched up with plywood and corrugated iron. |
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| The adversarial relationship in the United States was patched up in World War I by inducting reporters into the US military. |
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| They've patched up their differences now though, meeting in Brisbane today. |
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| Stray and unwanted cats have been patched up, neutered and sent off to new homes. |
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| I might have a guest over for Christmas Eve dinner with my family, depending on whether she's patched up with her boyfriend or not. |
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| I wanted patched up and mended clothing, he understood and we immediately found the solutions. |
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| Now they have improved and have been patched up here and there, but this has caused us a problem that we will have to return to again later on. |
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| It had been a scout plane in Vietnam and was full of bullet holes that had been patched up. |
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| The company dug tunnels in Belgium, carved dugouts at Vimy Ridge and patched up roads near Amiens. |
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| Company 6 of the Royal Canadian Engineers dug tunnels at Vimy Ridge, patched up roads near Amiens and defused mines after the war. |
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| I have to bring the airtight suits, too, because his are so patched up that it's a miracle he's still alive. |
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| The galvanising plant says these are patched up non-galvanised or damaged spots and that the standard NEN-EN-ISO 1461 allows for this. |
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| After an hour or so with his head under the bonnet, and various trips to the public toilet for water refills, the radiator was patched up, and we were ready to roll out. |
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| When he was cut on the cheek with a skate blade during one battle near the boards, he immediately got the wound patched up and was ready to go again. |
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| He was genuinely concerned that the Spurs affair might re-open the wounds that were patched up last season when he and the player were at cross purposes for a time. |
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| They seem to have patched up their differences, now, though. |
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| No doubt, these differences will be patched up, and then, perhaps in a year's time, we the Irish people will be asked to vote on this Constitution. |
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| School standards minister David Miliband said buildings needed to be rebuilt and refurbished on a much larger scale, not just patched up and mended. |
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| Pinned down under bombardment outside the strategic town of Cambes, evacuation of the wounded was not easy so Jack was patched up and restored to duty. |
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| And though to many arguing may not have seemed like the best bonding activity, Morgan believed that every argument that was patched up strengthened a relationship. |
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| For my whole life, when I have gone to a doctor, to my priest, or to a friend to have my wounds patched up, or for a shoulder to cry on, they dwell on my bruises, my cuts, my broken bones. |
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| Things that wear out get patched up, again and again. |
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| Kermorgant and Oldham defender Nathan Clarke then spent several minutes off the pitch being patched up following a clash of heads. |
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| Eventually I was put under and patched up. |
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| He is reported as claiming his hairpiece split and had to be patched up with double-sided sticky tape. |
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| A little big city, war-scarred and then quickly patched up again. |
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| Whether things have been patched up remains to be seen. |
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| When body and soul were patched up as well as possible, it then became a matter of making sure these valued citizens got a chance to live the Canadian dream. |
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| For example, British pilots who were shot down in 1940 and survived would be patched up and sent back to their units as quickly as possible. |
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| Peugeots, Porsches, on patched up pavements parked, Beetles, Beamers and Bentleys getting pretty narked. |
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| When we needed of cars for our reporting crews, our handymen patched up five wrecks, more than 30 years old, in which we lurched onto the streets in search of news. |
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| They've also patched up many broken games that wouldn't compile. |
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| Houses have been patched up and people are returning to live at home or with relatives pending reconstruction with the help of the government and donors, among which Hezbollah is playing an important part. |
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| A POLAR bear mauled an Eton pupil to death after tripwires patched up with paperclips failed to trigger an explosion that should have saved his life. |
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| They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there. |
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