Example sentences of "up as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their eyes light up as they tell y' , because there was some meanin' to it . |
| 2 | Improvisation should not , in any way , be confused with the rather general idea of ‘ making things up as you go along ’ , which has no real purpose beyond that of entertainment . |
| 3 | It 's certainly true that the pressure on you builds up as the terms go on — but training is not designed to destroy you , but to challenge you . |
| 4 | In the Dáil debate of 20 May , Padraig Faulkner , TD of Fianna Fáil argued that the introduction of divorce would indeed end up as divorce on demand anyway , and Charles Haughey indicated his ‘ personal view ’ that divorce was bad for ‘ individual stability ’ ( Irish Times , 21 May 1986 ) . |
| 5 | He looked up as Marion , Conroy still clutched to her side , came out through the doors from the stage , some of the others trailing behind her . |
| 6 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 7 | There we find similar bodily constructs built up as series of organizing principles , so that the other regiment or unit is perceived to operate in some kind of polluted time and space , and its aberrant nuances of uniform styling used as a marker of significant difference . |
| 8 | At the third corpse there was a faint click , and she looked up as the music stopped . |
| 9 | The woman looked up as the waiter made a great show of placing the glass with its golden contents beside her , and nodded his head towards Jay . |
| 10 | ‘ They say they have gathered in all who would come out from the north side down to Pitnacree , and the south side as far up as Kenmore. , ‘ The Grandtully crowd ? |
| 11 | He stood up as he spoke . |
| 12 | A horse whinnied and reared ; the troop trotted quickly out of the inn yard towards the high road ; Colberg rode up as hundreds of people — women , children , men — ran out of the woods along the riverbank upstream . |
| 13 | Meet up as usual ? |
| 14 | Rodney looked up as Sara and the others trooped in . |
| 15 | The boxes sent signals to the loops and thus to a central computer which clocked them up as tolls . |
| 16 | Candidate Florio and his blonde wife , Lucinda , had no choice but to pose with the property developer from the Jersey waterfront before moving on past three mediocre belly-dancers , a man ( on stilts ) dressed up as Abraham Lincoln and an actor dressed up as Rip Van Winkle . |
| 17 | The Independent Broadcasting Authority has said that groups can team up as long as they have no more than 25 per cent of the total independent television advertising market . |
| 18 | Dressed in white tie , his delivery is conversational and informal , but , to sustain the illusion that he is making it all up as he goes along ( it is in fact directed by Peter Barkworth ) , he launches into too many rambling sidetracks . |
| 19 | The Allied guns had just started up as I entered the orchard . |
| 20 | They sat up as I came in , then relaxed when they recognised me . |
| 21 | There were a few Commandos resting in the barn , they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition . |
| 22 | I stood up as the Sergeant approached . |
| 23 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 24 | Vivienne — with Bernie backing her up as Malcolm was in the States , having extended his visit after striking up a rapport with The New York Dolls at the time — talked me into doing it . |
| 25 | None of them looked up as they passed . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you ever see that brother of yours at all ? ’ he asked without looking up as he finished , drawing his chair roughly back from the table . |
| 27 | They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy . |
| 28 | However , it does also remove any chance of adjusting your line with the accelerator , causing artificially strong understeer that builds up as soon as the ASR exclamation mark lights up in the speedometer . |
| 29 | With small arrangements , make sure you check the water level frequently and top up as necessary . |
| 30 | ‘ I was brought up as one , ’ Frau Nordern said , ‘ but after 1945 … a God who would allow that to happen … that 's what I mean about Omi 's honour . |