Example sentences of "[verb] up [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1848 Prussian peasants rose up to put an end to serfdom and to pledges of service to their landlords . |
| 2 | AN unusual opportunity has come up to buy an English vineyard . |
| 3 | I have to look at the matter more broadly , and consider also the effect of a valid assignment made before winding up became an imminent prospect . |
| 4 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 5 | Philip came up to keep an eye on him for a week or so . |
| 6 | I 'm psyched up to make an appearance on Wednesday if I get the chance , whether it is for one minute or 10 . ’ |
| 7 | It ends up becoming an ordinary political thriller fitting the ‘ TV Cop ’ genre . |
| 8 | The undersides link up to form an arch while the uppersides are cut to appear as pierced circles . |
| 9 | In an effort to curb the man-eaters some very strange ruses have recently been attempted , including putting out dummy woodcutters wired up to give an electric shock . |
| 10 | Yet every time he gets up to make an impassioned speech about the important issues of our time the elitist establishment of the church rushes in to gag him . |
| 11 | ring up make an appointment for Dr . |
| 12 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 13 | Three new Stock Exchange money brokers ( SEMBs ) joined the original six SEMBs to lend stocks and finance to GEMMs , and six inter-dealer brokers ( IDBs ) were set up to maintain an anonymous transactions service between GEMMs . |
| 14 | He said you 'd been sticking your nose in where it was n't wanted , and had n't heeded warnings from your superiors about giving up finding an espionage connection with Mills ' murder . ’ |
| 15 | She rang up to make an appointment with my receptionist , using a false name . |
| 16 | The barricades go up to block an illegal rave . |
| 17 | If you do end up hiring an unsafe tool , inform your local trading standards officer immediately . |
| 18 | If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . |
| 19 | We looked up to see an old man in a flapping gallibaya pointing to the eastern shore . |
| 20 | Quiss looked up to see an overhead cable-car system of what looked like lengths of knotted string and bits of chain , running through little metal wheels set in the ceiling and carrying , on small hooks , cups and mugs and plates ( so that was why they had a hole at the edge ) , forks and spoons and knives of every description . |
| 21 | Greg looked up to see an elderly man , with rimless glasses , droopy moustaches and a slight air of remoteness and authority . |
| 22 | Anna stayed in the paddock , and her only contact with people was when she was chased into a yard and chute for worming and branding , or else had two legs at a time strapped up to facilitate an occasional trimming of her hooves . |
| 23 | I know , well I could n't get up to get an ashtray could I ? |
| 24 | Warming up has an ironic meaning in the tropics . |
| 25 | Lawrence , Larkin , Lowry , T. S. Eliot and even the image of a ‘ proletarian Proust ’ are dutifully lined up to create an appropriate artistic canon within which the film may take its rightful place . |
| 26 | The pit was nothing more elaborate than a series of planks chocked up to make an erratic knee-high circle . |
| 27 | The irony is that the skins in trying to be ‘ authentic ’ have ended up reviving an idea of working class culture which is frozen at precisely the point when a ‘ real ’ , ‘ authentic ’ working class identity was being positively eaten away from outside . |
| 28 | Out of the darkness beyond the white wall , streaks of fireflies : sudden lines of light matching the projected gashes on the film , which would suddenly stop and the lights come up to make an interval . |
| 29 | I suppressed so many feelings that I ended up having an emotional breakdown . |
| 30 | He stood up holding an automatic pistol and started trying to slot a magazine into the grip . |