Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | An occasional treat or privilege for a child who has made a big effort to master a new skill or managed to give up a bad habit hardly comes into that category . |
| 2 | If their tendency is that they are likely or intended to stir up racial hatred , that is sufficient . |
| 3 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 4 | In fact they had Mala 's and my molecu-prints and other data from our previous visits , and that helped to speed up the process to a slow crawl . |
| 5 | He was standing well apart from them as he gave Joe and his mother the details , and as the tears rolled down his cheeks Joe sensed a great loneliness in his cousin that seemed to link up with a similar feeling within himself , and he was drawn to Martin to put his arms about him , and when their faces touched both were wet . |
| 6 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 7 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |
| 8 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 9 | But the instructions were no more effective here than in the Ukraine , and , as we shall see , it was Georgia that came to sum up Lenin 's revulsion not only at the implementation of Party policy in the national field , but also at the general evolution of the Party . |
| 10 | For every dot that needed to build up a character a spark is generated by the printer which burns away the thin silver coating revealing the black backing paper . |
| 11 | Was n't at all sure that she wanted him to have learned anything about her that went to add up to what made her tick . |
| 12 | Among the shields are those of Bohemia , Moravia , Silesia and Upper and Lower Lusatia , the states that went to make up the lands of Bohemia . |
| 13 | They inherited very considerable R&T resources from the four major ICI divisions that went to make up C&P . |
| 14 | By December 1961 the Fouchet committee , which met independently of EEC institutions , had devised a plan that aimed to build up cultural , defence and foreign policy co-operation among the Six in a Union of States . |
| 15 | After this , all that remained to wrap up the conference was the Grand Raffle . |
| 16 | This latter is illustrated by the fact that until recently operating licences were issued more or less indiscriminately to any company that wanted to set up a sawmill . |
| 17 | Those that refused to take up their rights could have offset their losses by selling their 200 rights at 5p each ; i.e. 10 . |
| 18 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 19 | The contradictions were beginning : a man almost more famous than his work , his best work largely ignored , and expected to play up to his own eight by ten . |
| 20 | On one occasion , when Miss Mayhew had gone off to have her hair done after my lesson , I took myself off to the newspaper offices and asked to look up their old records . |
| 21 | Martin netted a peach of a goal within 17 minutes of his debut at Walsall on January 2 , but he only managed one more goal in the following seven appearances and failed to live up to his Hammers pedigree — he had played for the West ham first team on three occasions . |
| 22 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 23 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 24 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 25 | Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’ |
| 26 | For a while it organised mass meetings outside Eastbourne and Rye and sought to push up wages during the harvest season . |
| 27 | Kate could n't stop her face from flaming at the astuteness of his answer , and sought to cover up her confusion in attacking him again . |
| 28 | In the end he had relented , and agreed to take up the career she had chosen for him . |
| 29 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 30 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |