lock (something) up

He also recommended rules for maintaining cleanliness and order, and a lock-up to punish individuals who "misbehaved" or broke the rules.

Following the development of a thrust fault, increased strain with continued deformation may have led to 'work hardening' and lock-up within the shear zones.

On his release from the police lock-up he was sent to the hospital to have his various wounds seen to, and then brought back to the village.

In contrast, shops are normally separate lock-up establishments in a defined space and much easier to defend.

The not so good news is that 8,000 of those properties are lock-up garages.

The boy and his 11-year-old brother admitted breaking into a lock-up shop and an office, and to stealing bicycles and cash.

Have they any means of putting them into some lock-up, prison, or whatever it may be?

She lives in one half and lets the other, whether it be a lock-up shop, or rooms, or something of that sort.

If the rateable values of a shop with living accommodation and a lock-up shop are the same, the same will be paid in rates.

It is also, of course, a convenient lock-up for their money.

The larger company has facilities for transferring trade to branches, facilities which are not open to the ordinary individual who runs a lock-up shop.

That three-month period is half the period of the lock-up of import deposits.

For instance, the five-year lock-up period is too long and should be reduced to three years.

It is quite right that lock-up garages, storage premises and other such hereditaments should not be subject to the council tax in their own right.

In the past it has been possible for a doctor to use a lock-up shop, with hard wooden forms.

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