Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs , only to come up against a wall . |
| 2 | There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York . |
| 3 | Some cooks are born great , others have their natural skill improved by training , yet others train hard enough to make up for a lack of natural talent . |
| 4 | It would be so easy just to give up for a while . |
| 5 | ‘ While in times past a royal wife would be expected simply to put up with a situation no matter how desperate , the Princess of Wales belongs to a generation that has come to expect greater things from life and certainly from relationships , ’ she wrote . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she cried , beginning to gesticulate as she did when excited and then to square up like a boxer . |
| 7 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 8 | It looked very probable that the ball was not going to be the only thing to rise in the air — Mafouz himself , Robert felt , was about to climb up like a helicopter , clear of the grass , and hover over Wimbledon . |
| 9 | The moribund mainframe market is about to wake up to a flurry of developments in the storage area , with Hitachi Data Systems Inc preparing to announce a Symmetrix-type disk array for mainframes on May 25 , and IBM Corp following up a week later with launch of the 3390-9 disk drive , which is now expected to be accompanied by a new 3990-4 controller . |
| 10 | And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall ? |
| 11 | He explored the variables systematically to come up with a solution . |