Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | EXCITING theme days have been arranged to spice up eating in the Barlaston canteen . |
| 2 | Health promotion officers have been encouraging people to give up smoking with the help of a scene from the classic movie Casablanca . |
| 3 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 4 | Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door . |
| 5 | He could n't bear to wake up screaming on the plane as he so often did alone at night at Robinsgrove . |
| 6 | I said , but you 've got to get up to get to the |
| 7 | He emptied his glass in one gulp and I followed suit , only to end up spluttering over the table , coughing , with eyes watering , gasping for breath . |
| 8 | Granpa just groaned and said , ‘ I do n't want you to end up workin' in the East End , young ‘ un . |
| 9 | Even if everyone else is having a good time you tend to end up focusing on the one ASSHOLE ! |
| 10 | Opposition members tried to persuade the ruling Tories to push up spending to the Government-imposed limit and put extra cash towards economic development and jobs . |