Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps I should n't dress up at all , ’ Belinda responded , glancing down at her pink linen trousers and cream blouse . |
| 3 | Such sites do not always show up at all well , because crops grow differently over old infilled ditches . |
| 4 | Nobody could keep up with all the chemists nowadays , for example ; though someone might from time to time attend enormous congresses of chemists , he or she would go to papers devoted to his or her special branch of the subject . |
| 5 | Stipple is a black messy stuff that is used to simulate the years of dirt and grime that can build up in all those little nooks and crannies . |
| 6 | Maybe I thought we could make up for all those afternoons . |
| 7 | The money ca n't make up for all the misery I went through . ’ |
| 8 | The love nest he had conjured out of so little would make up for all her pain . |
| 9 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 10 | ‘ The Crumwallises would very much rather he did n't pitch up at all , ’ said Glenda . |
| 11 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 12 | It 's the alembick of the age — one that might blow up in all our faces , and yet … |
| 13 | ‘ No , I 'm afraid your Lt. Vologsky did not measure up at all . |
| 14 | I do n't understand how you think , and I ca n't poke up with all this anger and jealousy . |
| 15 | ‘ But what I saw as the character and what they the writers saw did n't match up at all . ’ |
| 16 | Oh , I did n't see him go up at all . |
| 17 | We 'll end up with all the fruit and vegetables and and the bread buns and the biscuits all over the floor . |
| 18 | I must save up for all of him . |
| 19 | He could get up to all sorts of tricks and I was told that when another one of the lads at the same farm applied for a job as a coachman , Grandad gave him a reference . |
| 20 | I might get up to all sorts of little tricks . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If you were so inclined you could get up to all sorts of things without anyone knowing about it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I mean , you should get up at all . |
| 23 | ‘ People will put up with all sorts of stuff , ’ he oddly phrases it , ‘ if they like you . ’ |
| 24 | But she would put up with all that to make Tina happy and give the children a secure childhood . |
| 25 | ‘ Syl wo n't put up with all this nonsense , ’ said my mother unwarily . |
| 26 | I think when you you get probably fifty five , and get them sixty retire , why should you put up with all this harassment ? |
| 27 | Australian Aborigines are very direct about this so they , so they do expect something back for the initiation an and it 's a kind of reciprocal thing where okay , you initiate me and I 'll put up with all this crap from you , but you know , you give me a wife , you 've got daughters I want a wife and er if I do n't get it , there 's gon na be real trouble and this is how the system works . |
| 28 | Would he come up at all ? |
| 29 | I 'm sure you 'll come up with all kinds of ideas of your own , but for starters why do n't you do something you know really well — the world of fashion . ’ |
| 30 | Now he 'll come up with all sorts of bright ideas like tying me up or pumping me full of tranquillizers for my own safety . |