Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I did do years gone by yes and they , they did move into the football combination at one time , because it was considered that the Midland Intermediate League was too big a jump for young men into the first team and the difference was so vast in the type of football that Walsall second team they u only playing young fellas , and they used to win seven and eight goal margins every week you know , but then they moved up into combination that was a better standard of football , but latter years economy drives and everything they came back out of the combination reverted to the Midland Intermediate again which I believe there are two phases of that no one for s older players and the other one strictly for youth players |
| 2 | A magazine rack overflowed with rolled newspapers : they had obviously arrived by post , but many were unopened , as though Reid had n't had time to catch up with news that must have been at least a month old . |
| 3 | Well he does n't know where I live at the but it came up in court that he was going to take me to court for access , making it out as though it was my fault that he had n't seen Ricky , I was stopping him from seeing Ricky when it 's his own fault . |
| 4 | Family placements offered a context for growing up in care that was consistent with their belief in the children 's psychological need to belong to families . |
| 5 | We arrive to witness a near riot — the dull hungry eyes of the children having been lit up by fear that the food is about to run out . |
| 6 | He should have been with the girl from the petrol station half an hour ago , but he was too eaten up with jealousy that his dear amigo , Luke , had taken that white-haired she-devil out for a drink . |
| 7 | ‘ I know Rosemary feels eaten up by guilt that she 's fallen in love with you while she 's married to someone else , but surely — ’ Leith tried to reason . |
| 8 | Although it is possible , according to Data Logic , to build OLTP systems that straddle the two technologies , you end up with software that may be interoperable , but wo n't be portable between the two . |
| 9 | She was glad to reach the door of the Seven Stars where she could rest the bag , though she was screwed up with fear that Garty might pop out of some alley , or Samson erupt like a volcano from the bowels of the tavern . |
| 10 | Stories of inferior accommodation , equipment and materials , effectively deemed to be ‘ good enough ’ for students with special needs , seemed to far outweigh reports of a stated commitment for those students being backed up by provision that was dignified and appropriate . |
| 11 | Evaporation losses can be topped up with tapwater that has been dechlorinated with a good quality conditioner such as TetraPond AquaFin . |
| 12 | De Vries soon lost interest and began to promote his ‘ mutation theory ’ , which stressed the role of saltations backed up by evidence that significant new characters were being produced in cultivated populations of the evening primrose . |
| 13 | what better way to sell yourself than come up with a contentious issue backed up by evidence that you |
| 14 | In Orkney the abandoned wreck of the Bettina Danica will be held up as proof that tough controls are needed on shipping passing through the treacherous waters of the Pentland Firth . |