Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her name had rarely cropped up after that . |
| 2 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
| 3 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 4 | Athelstan was sure the murderer was in the Tower and equally certain that some evil deed from the past had finally caught up with Sir Ralph . |
| 5 | The quiet Swiss man had actually turned up in a three-piece suit and tie , with a large amount of baggage ; one of the Belgians had two suitcases and a hand grip . |
| 6 | In the first week of the forty-day share sale period , the unions only invested £871,000 , and two weeks before the closing date the total had only crept up to £927,500 . |
| 7 | He was happily surprised to find that the cottage did indeed live up to Coleridge 's estimate of it , possessing ‘ every thing that heart could desire ’ , including a small flower garden and a climbing rose which Coleridge was soon to commemorate in verse . |
| 8 | What he could not understand , he said , was how this idea got so muddled up with hostages and the necessity to sell arms . |
| 9 | At the bottom end of the educational scale I remember so very clearly the instances — and there were far too many of them for my peace of mind — where the school had virtually given up in the face of difficulties . |
| 10 | Dustin 's salary had certainly gone up in leaps and bounds , from $17,000 for The Graduate , to $250,000 for Midnight Cowboy , to $425,000 for John and Mary . |
| 11 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 12 | Thus an assertion of cultural identity became closely bound up with the quest for a political model to supersede the North American system . |
| 13 | The price per set had however gone up to £6 . |