Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if this war wound stands up ter walkin' up those stairs I might be able ter get it down ter the dustbin for yer , ’ he said with a grimace . |
| 2 | SURPRISE OFFER 'S big-race warm up almost turned to disaster at Brighton yesterday today . |
| 3 | When I got the job on the building site , Mr Jackson said I was grown up enough to live on my own . |
| 4 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
| 5 | I should 've tidied up a bit — that would 've made Mr Jackson think I 'm grown up enough to look after myself , but it 's too late now . |
| 6 | I 'm grown up enough to look after Satan . |
| 7 | Spare Rib was already well established , and was joined for a period by the Leveller , another collective magazine , and the East End News , which produced the first attempt to appeal to ‘ the masses ’ of East London by dressing up Right-On concerns in chirpy Chas'n'Dave-style modernized Cockney . |
| 8 | Thus the simple but overall goal is that children should grow up properly equipped for adult life . |
| 9 | When it fills fills the cistern fills up anyway ploomp through the whole house . |
| 10 | And I remember I do n't know how it came up once talking with Michel Leiris about Surrealism . |
| 11 | When they saw I was no longer struggling , they quickly built a platform next to my head , and an official climbed up there to speak to me . |
| 12 | I 've always been the one that ends up just going without ’ ( Cohen , 1990 , p. 28 ) . |
| 13 | But will the clubs , more especially the big clubs for whom the internationals play , ever agree to dance the union 's tune when every issue that comes up between them ends up simply coming between them ? |
| 14 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 15 | It 's not all going according to plan , however , and most days they wind up literally singing for their supper . |
| 16 | She opened a door into a large , sunny drawing room , crossed its breadth , sat on a sofa , got up immediately to look for a cigarette , found a pack on a low table by the window , then sat down on a chair . |
| 17 | A GAMBLE on Omidjoy , backed from 66-1 to 14-1 for the opener at Leicester yesterday , failed by the narrowest of margins when odds-on Fair Maid Of Kent got up again to lead on the line . |
| 18 | Although the technology is available now , it will not be launched commercially until the first quarter of 1994 , because Ms Burke said , she wanted to be sure the company was geared up sufficiently to cope with any demands made on it . |
| 19 | Several animals of various sizes were roasting entire on slow-spinning spits , basted by anxious boys , whilst a stream of young people ferried foodstuffs from the pantries to the Great Hall above until the trestles set up there creaked under their load . |
| 20 | Many go to establishments set up especially to deal with British national tastes in food , drink , and entertainment . |
| 21 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 22 | Approves doctrinal formulations , weapons programmes , and draws up overall plan for Politburo ratification . |
| 23 | A Cabinet committee , expected to be chaired by the Prime Minister , will be set up soon to look at the broadest possible scope of environmental policy , taking in road traffic , housing , agriculture , the rural economy , energy , and industrial development , as well as the obvious ‘ green ’ areas of policy such as planning , waste disposal and pollution . |
| 24 | And what has happened is that they have done your one extra teacher and the extra books bit and they 're finishing up effectively going into liquidation . |
| 25 | Owen dashed up almost blinded with sweat . |
| 26 | However , there are various pros and cons that will need to be weighed up carefully depending on your age , the transfer value of your earlier pension and the anticipated annual amount available for investing in your new scheme . |
| 27 | He would go up to his desk , work there shredding paper , come down and in no time rush up again to check on some figures and return bringing more paperwork with him . |
| 28 | The little Hindu girl is brought up carefully to prepare for her role as a wife and mother in an alien family . |
| 29 | We were brought up nicely to go with my father who used to sing in the church choir . |
| 30 | And for all Martin Stannard 's fair-minded efforts to encourage our pity , it 's very difficult to stir up much regret about that . |