chase someone up

Examples of chased

chased

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Other workers in the vicinity of the ant being chased would often attempt to catch the wasps.
Too often our colleagues have chased the leading edge of the wave of (sub)urban development.
Shapely sentences, sparkling epigrams, brilliant dialogue chased nimbly through her travailing brain.
Frequently buyers can be observed being chased away from a market by a group of runners, for not doing so.
First, being chased is the most common theme in the recurrent dreams of both children and adults.
Nonresponders to the first two mailings were chased once by email.
Few people regularly worry about being chased by animals, monsters, aliens, or strangers, but they may nevertheless frequently dream about such events.
Such dreams usually begin in childhood and involve being chased by a monster or a wild animal.
Secondly, the generic /s/ is more usually set against a past tense /ed/ (the cat chased/chases rather than our the cat let/lets).
They also chased large bees, moths and butterflies.
A man who chased off his wife or failed to give her support could alienate his in-laws.
Samples remained in situ (' chased ' with non-radioactive water), and harvested during the next day.
When questioned, the patient denied having seen himself being chased by the big fellow.
Cognitive scientists, economists, and biologists have often chased after the same beautiful dreams by building elaborate models endowing organisms with unlimited abilities to know, memorize, and compute.
Everything was knotted up, and kept on rolling over, like a boat that is chased from shore to shore, but which is still the same boat.
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