Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 2 | And given that devices change as new models are introduced , there will then be a daunting support job to be done just to keep up with the market . |
| 3 | However , one thing that is almost guaranteed is that if the things that you do do n't match up to the things that you say , your friends will soon point that out to you ! |
| 4 | ( A couple of drunks do eventually square up in the third base bleachers , but by Stamford Bridge standards it is almost a mating ritual ) . |
| 5 | Our prices did not go up at the same rate . |
| 6 | We did not go up in the same lift , but were taken to another one , apparently for the use of directors only . |
| 7 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 8 | They were pale Reds who did not wake up until the second half . |
| 9 | The diathermy loop was used when the neosquamocolumnar junction could be visualised entirely and did not extend up into the canal more than 5 mm from the anatomical os externum . |
| 10 | Although the apex of the pitched roof of this wing was 6.5m ( 21ft ) above floor level , unlike the arrangement that applies at Shawell school , the internal space did not extend up to the roof ridge-board . |
| 11 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 12 | Although these weaknesses did not show up in the balance of payments until the 1960s this does not mean that the position in the 1950s was anywhere near ‘ entirely satisfactory ’ since the process was then in the making [ cf. |
| 13 | For all its sincerity , the play did not live up to the promise of its finely drawn characters and the Manchester Guardian called it ‘ a mildly glum artistic failure ’ . |
| 14 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 15 | In 1964 the traffic similarly did not pose quite such a problem as in 1988 , the car parking round the district proving quite adequate , especially as the expected crowds did not turn up on the day . |
| 16 | Angry with Nutty for her pigheadedness and superior airs , Nails did not turn up for the next swimming lesson . |
| 17 | He did not turn up to the funeral when his friend died , and for me this was sadder than the loss of the vicar who had found peace and hope before he died . |
| 18 | His behaviour at the visit seems to suggest that he was a disturbing presence , since he did not turn up in the Great Hall as expected , but disappeared into a derelict and disused part of the house from whence he had to be fetched . |
| 19 | He did not look up towards the guard in the watch-tower . |
| 20 | Her sister did not look up from the list of figures . |
| 21 | Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid . |
| 22 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 23 | The first 15 overs yielded only 30 and the 100 did not come up until the 35th over . |
| 24 | One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation . |
| 25 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 26 | Just as they are taught other subjects , they should increasingly be taught about such topics as mental handicap so that they do not grow up with the prejudices that their parents may possess . |
| 27 | As I 've tried to suggest , many books do not face up to the very evident problems confronting psychology , but it does seem that the discipline is alive and kicking . |
| 28 | However , even the best of these efforts , and they are perhaps in their fully fledged forms used more in psychology than in social research , do not reach up to the standards of measurement used in science or , less ambitiously , the higher levels of measurement represented by interval and ratio scales . |
| 29 | It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ . |
| 30 | It is a known and established fact that political parties do not pick up in the polls once an election is under way . |