Example sentences of "up as [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 There are no official rules and people tend to make them up as they go along .
2 They make them up as they go along .
3 But , in the final resort , EC government leaders can make the rules up as they go along . "
4 They make them up as they go along .
5 He says that the dialogue is fun — much of it is made up as they go along !
6 It ca n't be assumed that they will just learn and pick things up as they go along .
7 It is as though the bream were connected to sticks with several people stood on the bottom pushing one fish up as they pull another one down .
8 Their eyes light up as they tell y' , because there was some meanin' to it .
9 The plants die and oxygen is used up as they decompose .
10 You can leave the fabric in place almost until you are ready to gather your crops as it is so light the plants just push it up as they grow .
11 Gayle , sent off during Birmingham 's Anglo-Italian Cup clash with Lucchese on Wednesday , has called on the players to toughen up as they face up to a New Year relegation battle .
12 • Many poisons cause as much damage coming back up as they do going down , so do not make him vomit unless you are sure it is safe to do so .
13 The superb choruses , picking up as they do lines from various Crabbe poems , inherit the point-of-view of his editorial stoicism .
14 As the years go past I mean if the wages go up as they have done , you know , regularly your mortgage is gon na gon na gon na be smaller .
15 That I 've put down , erm , anybody added it up as we 've gone along ?
16 New pieces continue to arrive , as subject working parties report and orders are made : but there is a strong sense that the master picture is being made up as we go along .
17 Well I think we can arrange to pick you up as we go at that time , you 'll of eh , because I know that bus passes do n't cover that .
18 We 'll make that up as we go along .
19 I think we live with the local authority set up as we have it .
20 Erm , the salmon pages set out the proposed strategy to meet those guidelines , and as I say , we 'll pick those up as we move through .
21 If I get married I will definitely give prostitutes up as I take marriage seriously and think it would be very insulting to a woman .
22 It cheers me up as I come up in the lift and stagger out blinking in the daylight .
23 THE tears are welling up as I speak .
24 ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . )
25 I 'm making this up as I go along , really .
26 if the rail fare 's gone up as I expect it may well have done .
27 She wakes up as I start moving around and peers at the screen .
28 I took their advice , but I must have had an inclination towards food to have ended up as I have .
29 No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow .
30 But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 .
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