Example sentences of "how [modal v] [pron] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | How should I measure up what to buy ? |
| 2 | Mm , how 'd he get up to it ? |
| 3 | How , he asked himself , how could one put up with that , day after day . |
| 4 | How could I pass up a chance of hiring the most beautiful bargee in the solar system ? ’ |
| 5 | How could I live up to them when I got home ? |
| 6 | ‘ How dare you creep up on me like that ! ’ |
| 7 | How dare he whip up strangers to hostility because I did n't wear clothes clearly indicating my sex — what was it to them whether I was a woman or a man ? |
| 8 | Trouble was , if she appeared downstairs too soon it would look as if she was cadging a lift , and if she arrived too late they would have gone without her — and then how would she summon up the courage to go at all ? |
| 9 | So how would you sum up a function ? |
| 10 | And how would you sum up a mapping ? |
| 11 | Q. So how would you sum up progress in the last two to three years ? |
| 12 | He has miraculously survived all this , and even being education secretary , but how would he measure up to being chairman , in a party where , in times of stress , to be party chairman is a greater thing than to be a secretary of state ? |
| 13 | How can one scale up from what can be counted in a two-dimensional section to the three dimensions of living tissue ? |
| 14 | How can anyone dream up a handicap system whereby my handicap can go up because somebody else scored a net 65 ? |
| 15 | Then how can you make up your mind , just like that ? ’ |
| 16 | How can you grow up here and not know all this ? ’ |
| 17 | How can I stand up and do that ? |
| 18 | I 'm over 40 , so how can I firm up a sagging bustline ? |