Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 2 | Some questions to see how you match up to the job |
| 3 | Tomorrow we 'll test the strings we 've made , and see how they measure up against the old ones for reliability . |
| 4 | That is , going through various categories — education , qualifications , experience , etc. , and seeing how they match up with the picture of the ideal candidate which you built up . |
| 5 | Then came the snow and she had to stay in and watch from the window how it piled up against the water butt , how it lay like a blanket along the sills , how it changed the distance from bluey brown to white as far as you could see . |
| 6 | ‘ Each Church will have to look at its own organisation and how it faces up to the problem but the element of mutual trust enables people to look at each other also . ’ |
| 7 | It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire ! |
| 8 | That 's when I woke up to the fact that there was something very wrong with the relationship , and very wrong with my life … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I guess when I show up for the Majors I 'll be a little more popular . |
| 10 | That 's when I threw up on the carpet . |
| 11 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 12 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 13 | Me dad had hit us with a belt , that 's why I ended up in a home . |
| 14 | I sent her Nit Ac LM1 and did n't hear anything for a year when she rang up with a headache — it turned out that the anal fissure had cleared quickly and she felt she had been miraculously well given her sister had been murdered 12mths previously and she 'd had 4 months leave of absence from work to deal with the aftermath which had involved her nephew joining the family . |
| 15 | A tiny figure is when you consider up to a third of the population is estimated to have no belief in God . |
| 16 | Is this your problem ? , is this why you ended up with a |
| 17 | On and on about it he was when we walked up to the bridge . ’ |
| 18 | But today when we finished up to the middle of th here . |
| 19 | Well you can see for yourself on Friday , when we meet up with the main man on the golf course ; he 's full of fun and full of hope . |
| 20 | A participant commented : ‘ I liked the last day when we teamed up with the professionals . |
| 21 | They too have assumed that there is something natural and self-evident about the human individual as a separate physical body , but then , in order to distinguish their own field of enquiry from that of the physical anthropologists , they have reified their special concept of culture to a point where we end up with the implicit definition : " Culture is everything which concerns the life and behaviour of human beings which is not an aspect of human nature , as the physical anthropologists perceive it . " |
| 22 | Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound . |
| 23 | John agreed this , which is why we finished up with a little model set showing the chimney behind the wall , down which a miniature Voord could be thrown . ’ |
| 24 | Andy Thomson and John Price , who between them have dominated the indoor season , move outdoors today when they line up in the five-day Mazda International Singles Championship on Australia 's Gold Coast . |
| 25 | There was no happy return to the Hippy days when they teamed up for the Sixties hit I Got You Babe . |
| 26 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 27 | There are only the smallest of delicately dropped clues as to how and why they ended up with the social skills of a herd of rhinos . |
| 28 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 29 | Remember when he went up to the aeroplane , Jim only hate to haul him away and slap him once and he learned , he did n't go near an aeroplane any more |
| 30 | He must have had as fine a view of the burgeoning industry of Glasgow , as he had of the stars when he peered up at the heavens from the University Observatory at Dowanhill . |