Example sentences of "up [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many opinions I formerly entertained are now given up & probably many of my present opinions will share the same fate — I wish them to be closely and fully ( as I know they will fairly ) examined without any regard to the author & therefore I can not by my presence aid your cause . |
| 2 | The area had been built up where not long before , according to Defoe 's account , there were fields of grass with cows feeding in them . |
| 3 | You know if he starts throwing up or well you , you think he seems he looks as if he 's in pain or something . |
| 4 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 5 | These are drastic actions , and they need to be ; this person is about to carve you up or even murder you . |
| 6 | All this , one may presume further , was supposed to supply the missing will and determination of the indigenous people and just in case the French might be feeling a little faint-hearted at the prospect , the US should immediately reconsider its policy at the first sign that the French were planning to give up or even if they planned to take the problem to the UN . |
| 7 | Both Salvadorean and Honduras security forces have raided the camps and refugees and community workers have been badly beaten up or even killed . |
| 8 | Do not fix anything so low over a sofa that people can knock their heads on it when getting up or even leaning back ; all the same , try to place everything at a reasonably flexible eye level . |
| 9 | for proceeding to or returning from a place where it is to be or has been tested , or for proceeding to a place where it is to be broken up or otherwise dismantled . |
| 10 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 11 | This followed a spate of incidents in which the ubiquitous Lenin statues had been toppled , blown up or otherwise vandalized in towns across the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Are you gon na put another garage up or just |
| 13 | Otherwise , one wonders , how could there constantly be those ‘ asides ’ , which seem to reveal that the participants were actually aware the game was up or rather perhaps had never started ? |
| 14 | The perspectives , the horizon points , the viewing angles all had to be worked out beforehand so that camera shots would enable the backdrops to appear as natural continuations of the sets , instead of suddenly sloping up or downhill . |
| 15 | Susan did not know how she felt about this until she saw that he had painted himself and herself half-way up or half-way down , looking up or down at their reflections in the water . |
| 16 | Well it 's always going to be hard because we 're , you know , near the bottom and that and it 's very tight , you know just a win or a loss like , it puts you either three places up or right near the bottom . |
| 17 | The organisers had to pay the travel bill of the poverty-stricken Fijians and , until literally the first day of the tournament , no-one knew whether the Russians would turn up or not . |
| 18 | They 're usually purchased over the counter with no instructions , but last week I bought one in a plastic sleeve , on which the following instructions were printed : ‘ This voltage indicator is suitable for testing AC voltage from 100 volts up to a maximum of 500 volts against earth The metal part on top of the indicator must be touched to operate it , and the earthing position of the user largely determines whether it lights up or not . |
| 19 | I was tempted to look for Mum 's name so I checked that she was really asleep , although I did n't care if she woke up or not . |
| 20 | Why should Billy put himself at risk for the sake of his hereditary enemies , whether he 'd helped to bring them up or not ? |
| 21 | My wedding is set for April ; whether I 'm called up or not , it 's going through . |
| 22 | These dilemmas involve what is given up or not done in order to care , or prioritisation of need in the family , or the sense of not caring well enough , or not doing enough to help . |
| 23 | Later he is spotted standing at the edge of the swimming pool , bent double , taking bets on whether he is going to throw up or not . |
| 24 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 25 | ‘ Only I 'm never too sure whether you 're going to be up or not . ’ |
| 26 | From my present perspective twenty years on ( whether grown up or not ) , it is interesting to look around and see how far the same comment would be appropriate today . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not sure if we 're meant to be making this up or not , ’ muses Gordon . |
| 28 | Rain telephoned the police and spoke to an officer who was unconcerned whether she cleared up or not . |
| 29 | I mean whether they hushed it up or not I do n't know . |
| 30 | Analysis of survival was calculated in only 15 of the 20 patients in the low grade group , in 9 of 11 in the mixed grade group , and in 21 of 25 with high grade lymphomas as 11 patients had either inadequate follow up or not treatment . |