Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 2 | A timetable covering the completion of our work and of the transaction under the terms of the engagement will be drawn up and agreed between the directors and us by [ date ] . |
| 3 | it 's like party balloons , she 's got like water balloons I mean , with water and , they was , I had them in this box mucking about , I was trying take something out , and then like we dropped a water balloon in their bathroom and erm , we started having water fight , and that they filled them up and go into the balloons and then you go and tie it up |
| 4 | We just give up and go through the motions and we let our negativity harden inside us . |
| 5 | The other woman , whom she described as a man-hater , made her get up and come to the lavatories and once inside shouted vehemently , ‘ Do n't you ever do that again , if those men see you crying they 'll walk all over you ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Caspar , ’ said Lee , jumping up and looking through the trees . |
| 7 | When the rain stopped , we went up and walked on the roofs . |
| 8 | For example , it is often women in poor health , living in poor and crowded conditions , on a low income and without private transport , who are trying to bring up and cope with the demands of small children on their own . |
| 9 | ‘ Bill and I were left on stage gaping as they all got up and made for the exits . |
| 10 | At one o'clock Rachaela ate lunch , and at five past two , half an hour too late , she got up and left for the antiques shop . |
| 11 | The soldiers relaxed , laughing , whilst the hostages stood up and joined in the celebrations . |
| 12 | If the state of Bosnia & Hercegovina is carved up and redistributed by the victors , territory will have been grabbed by force , frontiers changed by war . |
| 13 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 14 | She gets up and works on the screws pinning the legs of the bed to the floor . |
| 15 | When bottoms itch , fingers scratch , and the microscopic eggs get scraped up and caught under the nails . |
| 16 | Just as he finished , Garvey stood up and hauled on the reins . |
| 17 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 18 | This is the key to the continuing popularity of the event : it accommodates , equally , the ambitions of family crews , business men and women who have sold up and taken to the oceans , retired couples and racing skippers in search of another rosette . |
| 19 | Hewlett-Packard does offer multiprocessing on the 9000 Series 800 servers and although it already has multiprocessing desktops up and running in the labs , the company says it is still in the process of deciding whether to bring these to market sooner or later . |
| 20 | According to IBM , DFS — which enables an assortment of files on a network to look and act as if they were local — is up and running in the labs and is scheduled for beta test by the end of the first quarter . |
| 21 | HP does offer multiprocessing on the 9000 series 800 servers and although it already has multiprocessing desktops up and running in the labs , the company says it is still in the process of deciding whether to bring these to market sooner or later . |
| 22 | Every tiny fragment of fibre , denim and leather was picked up and dropped in the bags . |
| 23 | Leonora contemplated argument , abandoned it , and , without taking the hand , got up and started for the stairs on leaden feet , full of foreboding about the night ahead . |
| 24 | I pick them up and look at the envelopes . |
| 25 | Over the past six months or so you appear to have taken a leaf out of the Aquarian book and aired your grievances in such a manner that you now face the possibility of a complete break from the past , which in turn would alter so much you have built up and established over the years . |
| 26 | That was the ‘ quotable quote ’ which the media picked up and put into the headlines . |
| 27 | It appeared to be coming from somewhere to the right , the bullets were hitting the house high up and smashing through the windows of one of the bedrooms . |
| 28 | In a large , prefabricated shed we wandered past stacks of 45-gallon drums of PCBs , two drums high , about 10 deep ; and there were contaminated transformers waiting to be cut up and roasted in the flames . |
| 29 | Annie had been brought up and educated within the walls of a convent and she had never become familiar with the more colourful words that people used . |
| 30 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |