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He was still tied up when the men made their escape but managed to free himself.
She tied up her hair in a bun and jammed a shapeless felt hat down over it.
They do, however, have their own politics which are tied up with ruling classes, nationalism, etc.
That red tape is a result of an endless stream of initiatives from the government, which are usually tied up with the private sector.
It seems to be tied up with a rather Victorian work ethic where poor people are demonised for idleness and deserve their fate.
John's father, Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger during the prohibition and was also tied up with Mafia.
That is tied up with the elements of the offence, of course, in the first place.
But fertility, of course, has always been tied up with deep emotional and moral issues.
His switch to study theology with work in the Anglican Church may well have been tied up with the beginning of the First World War.
Much of the company's success has been tied up with its campaigning approach to the pursuit of social and environmental issues.
Happiness, in this scheme of things, is always tied up with what happens, especially what happens by luck or chance.
Miss Lees was tied up but managed to escape and hid from the gunman for several hours while he searched for her with his dog.
I woke up, and after a moment realized that I wasn't tied up, and that I was moving.
They don't take part in all the trial proceedings not because they are lazy but because they are tied up with other engagements.
So you would be tied up in legal proceedings, rather than attending to a very serious health issue?
Into the 1860s at least, because of the seasonality of the tourist trade, most boats were tied up, out of service, for more than half the year.
But at the end of the first week in January, the weather is blowing hard and all boats are tied up.
This week the container ship Southern Express arrived in port at the same time as a number of longline fishing vessels were tied up at the wharf.
He has some money in a building society account, but a lot of his capital is tied up in shares.
For most of them, a huge portion of their net worth is tied up in company stock or company stock options.
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Examples from Classical Literature
These trees are planted two feet apart in the row and are tied up to a trellis of chicken wire.
We find homeopathy, spiritualism, transcendentalism, theological liberalism and faith healing all tied up in one bundle.
So I contrived to unloose my braces and with them tied up the snake's mouth.
The parcel found in the brickfield was tied up with a tag end of tape and a bit of a dirty apron string.
He hadn't any overcoat on and his feet and legs were tied up in gunny sacks.
There she lived, like an Amphitrite's wire-haired terrier tied up, till Alessandro went a-fishing.
And so, he's all tied up in knots with ptomaine poisoning and I've got to straighten him out.
Some of them had it tied up behind like women, and now proceeded to unloose it.
Then he tied up the mouth of the money-bag, and threw it down to the Milkman.
Uncle Henry's money was tied up in the stumpage lease, or first payment to the owners of the land.
The shrubbery around the sudatory is in many localities tied up with willow wisps and ropes.
My unbound books, and all my tracts and pamphlets, are to be tied up with pink tape.
The team, Fan and Bill, and lakota were the only horses tied up in the hay barn.
The patient must be tied up in lithotomy position on a table in the very best light that can be obtained.
Scotty swung the mtb past the dock and saw a smaller dock where a few pleasure boats were tied up.
Boats are tied up under shady groves of mango and bo tree, and people bathe screened behind them.
What could his thoughts have been, lying tied up on the living room floor waiting for twenty tons of TNT to go off?
What did you go and pretend to be a spender and get tied up with me for?
He was tied up by the loins, and suspended for a considerable time.
For our relief I tied up the horses for some time before letting them go.
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