Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'd like to meet up for a drink or something , do give me a call on the above number . |
| 2 | He says Wilfrd Thesiger 's idea of a nice night is to curl up on a rock and eat some fresh camel 's milk . |
| 3 | It was an act familiar to anyone , that is almost everyone , who has suffered from those self-inflicted illnesses that inspire only a feeling of wanting to curl up in a ball and be alone . |
| 4 | And those that do , grow up in a sub-culture that is a disgrace to England ; unable to read or write , born to crime as a way of life , most of them have never even seen the inside of a church . |
| 5 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 6 | I recently bought a Series IIA ex-military Land Rover with the intention of completely rebuilding it over the next few years ending up with a vehicle that will last for years to come . |
| 7 | The problem I get asked about most is ending up with a seam that is not the correct length , or is wavy . |
| 8 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 9 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 10 | Daniel Galvin in London has come up with a treatment that takes only thirty minutes and rather than causing a dramatic change , it softly camouflages grey hair with a subtle , natural-looking colour . |
| 11 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 12 | The atmosphere moves from hard bop to cajun crunch and , for once , Billy boy has come up with a record that justifies all the praise that has been heaped on his shoulders . |
| 13 | A RESEARCHER with IBM has come up with a device that might possibly replace the transistor in integrated circuit devices . |
| 14 | Now the Scottish Prison Service and the Scottish Council for Single Homeless have come up with a package that attempts to address the problem . |
| 15 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 16 | And just as everybody who looked to that serpent on the pole was healed , so I am gon na be lifted up on a cross and everybody who looks in faith to me , and in obedience receives my gift of forgiveness , they will be saved ! |
| 17 | The pilot , who was later court martialled , was unable to pull up from a dive and ploughed into the ground . |
| 18 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 19 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 20 | Twenty-five days later three survivors , all wounded , were picked up from a raft and taken to Capetown . |
| 21 | The bang as it bounces may be picked up by a hearing-aid or by a vibrator , thus avoiding that sticky mess on top of the stove . |
| 22 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 23 | It will be up to the SMMB to come up with a scheme that is acceptable to them . ’ |
| 24 | How long does it usually take you to come up with a solo that meets the demanding criteria you 've just described ? |
| 25 | Go to a hairdresser , ask him or her to come up with a style that suits you , your hair , your lifestyle , and emerge looking and feeling great . |
| 26 | I 'll try to come up with a part that suits the imagery of the song , and then the tuning seems to suggest itself |
| 27 | We got a call from them recently and , apparently they 've managed to come up with a program that WILL allow for a hundred Lemmings on-screen at once — although they would not be animated to any degree whatsoever . |
| 28 | Basically , the problem is this : due to the sprite limitations of the C64 nobody — as yet — has managed to come up with a routine that would allow more than ten Lemmings on-screen simultaneously . |
| 29 | Even in the ‘ settled ’ areas , where the US and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been active , efforts to eradicate opium by crop substitution have run into trouble for one simple reason : in 30 years , no one has been able to come up with a product as lucrative and easy to market as opium . |
| 30 | Wiping or scrubbing with the arm fully extended is less efficient than squaring up to a job and wiping an area slightly offset from the vertical bodycentreline . |