Example sentences of "so [adj] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's so annoying to end up , never at a pub . |
| 2 | If people were n't sure of getting the victim for their money they would n't be so willing to pay up . |
| 3 | I think it must have been Tom 's fear from the past , knowing what happened to black people who stepped out of line that made him so afraid to stick up for himself and stand his ground . |
| 4 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |
| 5 | We talked endlessly — there was so much to catch up on . |
| 6 | The Duchess of Richmond and Gordon has done so much to build up these fine International Dressage Championships . |
| 7 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 8 | A Home Secretary needs one , not so much to stand up to criminals as to stand up to people with damaging non-solutions to crime . |
| 9 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 10 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 11 | I know it would help to talk to someone but I find it so hard to open up . |
| 12 | Progress is being made by scientists in understanding both what causes the pleasure of drugs and what makes the pleasure so hard to give up ( see page 123 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ She found it so hard to give up all the solvents . |
| 14 | But remedies involving , for example , an extra tax payable by each person in a household would at the moment be madness : many councils would be left struggling with exactly the enforcement difficulties that have made the poll tax so hard to set up and administer . |
| 15 | Why , after all , should the Germans derive any satisfaction from the task of giving to the victors that which they themselves had worked so hard to build up ? |
| 16 | ‘ I never expected so many to show up . |
| 17 | I can not for the life of me see why children have to take so long to grow up . |
| 18 | The simple reason that the PC took so long to catch up is a direct result of its design . |
| 19 | Besides , the temperature would continue to rise over the next few decades even if greenhouse gases stayed as they are , simply because the world is so slow to warm up , and has not yet responded to what is there already . |
| 20 | So difficult to pick up . |
| 21 | It 's so difficult to add up the the hours , but I mean it 's a number of days of course it 's not working solidly you know , maybe only for an up an hour or an hour . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , I 'm not so anxious to go up there . |
| 23 | It is because Britain will resist that idea in Malaysia that Whitehall is so anxious to build up a record of consultation , commitment and sympathy towards the majority in South Africa . |
| 24 | You 'd be so nice to wake up with … |
| 25 | Nor has the tenor of British business life been much adorned by individuals so ready to dress up lies as the truth and , through their lawyers , to castigate the truth as libel . |