Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you see which side my fence is buttered , and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing , then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab . |
| 2 | And they were not ‘ luxuries ’ but , in the higher standard of living , had become essentials for anyone with the modest ambition of keeping up with the Jones 's — wireless sets , gramophones , motor bikes , motor cars , vacuum cleaners , geysers , Oxford Bags , artificial silk stockings , tennis racquets and steel-shafted mashie niblicks . |
| 3 | Unlike many groups , The Wedding Present largely avoided the dubious pleasure of growing up in the public eye . |
| 4 | Thanks to the several hundred Young Guardian readers who wrote their accounts of Growing Up In the Eighties for the Outloud column . |
| 5 | Management gurus have done their best , picking over the bones of ‘ world-class ’ firms in the hope of coming up with the Magic Formula . |
| 6 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 7 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 8 | You talk about getting work you talk about getting work and all that sort of thing erm we 've offered John , at one point , that if he did a bit of clearing up in the churchyard erm that he would be given a small amount of money . |
| 9 | I feel done a bit of sewing up on the shoulders and then it 's well on the way . |
| 10 | The non-assertive character of the first three is quite obvious : the conditional clause leaves the actualization of dare up in the air in ( 31 ) ; ( 32 ) implies " she did n't dare ignore him any more than that " ; ( 33 ) is a sort of indignant rhetorical question implying that he should n't have dared take the native 's part against her . |
| 11 | Then I saw him looking in one of the restaurant windows , keeping himself kind of flattened up against the wall . ’ |
| 12 | You know , the difficulty of getting up to the flats , i you know I I suffered from arthritis , and er you know i it was quite a strenuous business to get from the ground up to our own flat . |
| 13 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 14 | Finally , I propose to call no person more than once to accept that the movers will have the opportunity of winding up at the end and I would please ask you to wait until you have been called . |
| 15 | But we 're concentrating this week and next week on the advocacy skill of standing up before a court . |
| 16 | Of course , one of the advantages of waking up in the night in a sweat is that you tend to have your best ideas whilst failing to get back to sleep . |
| 17 | The mean ( SEM ) periods of follow up in the corrosive and peptic stricture groups were 32.36 ( 17.12 ) months ( range 6–60 months ) and 36.32 ( 17.9 ) ( range 6–60 months ) respectively . |
| 18 | It 's pretty smoky — the trains give off this browny smoke and it do n't blow away — it just sort of drifts up to the roof . |
| 19 | It sort of humped up in the middle , sucking water with it , shrugging sprays of water from its wavy edges ! |
| 20 | Yeah , they 're quite soft anyway it just felt as if they were sort of my toes were sort of jammed up against the end but |
| 21 | Because it was an old age woman , they ai n't give anyone 's names old age woman was er it was in the paper sort of met up with an intruder in her house like . |
| 22 | You know they do n't sort of poke up in the air like shoulders sometimes do . |
| 23 | The whole idea of erm a fax is to get the thing there quickly is n't it ? if it 's sort of sitting up on a desk for three days before they bring it down . |
| 24 | Well , as long as it does n't make me feel uneasy , I 'm a fairly tidy sort of person , so I do make the bed , and sort of tidy up in the bedroom , and I tidy up in here , when she 's gone to bed . |
| 25 | and my comment was that before getting too sort of wound up about the way we get public |
| 26 | looking at the water , I think you would have to sort of climb up over the rails to fall in would n't you ? |
| 27 | That 'll be , we , we sort of weighed up from the length of what we had to show |
| 28 | And then , on the bottom of page sixteen and through on to seventeen is addressing the point that , also within the guideline , we have been asked , we 've been asked as a Committee , to look at the implications of finding up to a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 29 | The male can maintain a fairly equable distribution of grooming up to a harem size of five females . |
| 30 | History is the study of the past using documents and inscriptions as evidence , and historians have recorded and interpreted events from the earliest days of writing up to the present day . |