Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 2 | The European Council of Ministers on 10 March got fed up with Super-SARA — which was to have been Europe 's model for testing the conventional wisdom on safety designs — and axed the £200 million project . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 4 | ‘ But I thought yer was sayin' that Joe 's bruvver got beaten up over Stepney . |
| 5 | The withdrawal of these pioneers from the scene need not have been bad news for the industry ; few American production outfits made the transition to new times and Méliès failed to keep up in France . |
| 6 | The company 's shareholders got tangled up in a general bout of profit-taking that hit all electricity shares . |
| 7 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 8 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 9 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
| 10 | Gabriel reached out a hand , meaning to touch the man 's shoulder : his fingers got caught up in Garvey 's ear . |
| 11 | My mum got fed up with it . |
| 12 | There is no reason to suppose that the average Victorian member of the middle class , lower middle class or ‘ respectable ’ working class in , say , Victorian England and the United States failed to live up to his or her standards of sexual morality . |
| 13 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 14 | The gossip columnists of Europe and the East Coast fought to keep up with him . |
| 15 | The alarm was raised by a cook who arrived for work as normal but Mrs Johnstone failed to open up for lunch-time business . |
| 16 | Another exciting window on the mind seemed to open up in Chicago in the 1950s when Nathaniel Kleitman and Bill Dement began using the techniques of electroencephalography to investigate sleep . |
| 17 | Down in the valley , a great light seemed to blaze up towards him . |
| 18 | The words came mumbling up from beneath the bent head . |
| 19 | Adam stared , struggling to get back to his feet ; and confusion seemed to burn up in his face . |
| 20 | RIOTING prisoners burned and vandalised their jail today in an orgy of destruction which one witness estimated caused up to £40m of damage . |
| 21 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |
| 22 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 23 | Behind the sand-dunes , schools , offices , churches , a market , a railway station , a radio station and hundreds of homes began to spring up with all the rapidity of a cow-town on the American prairie . |
| 24 | The entire audience rushed out into the street half-way through the performance of Death and the Maiden , when the auditorium began filling up with smoke . |
| 25 | First , the boards and the Committee for Science and Technology had the problem of deciding ‘ how far a subject was ‘ degree worthy ’ , because new subjects started springing up like grass in a corn field ’ : |
| 26 | Afterwards , about five , when the club started to fill up with people arriving for the daily hockey and cricket matches , played always , by personal decree of the Consul-General , in the cool of the evening , he returned to his office . |
| 27 | For several years that basic idea of using a flight simulator kept coming up in my mind and it was in 1974 , after I had attended the meeting of the Accident Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal , that I was discussing this same problem with Bernard Caiger of the Canadian National Research Council . |
| 28 | Blue magnesium flares went spiralling up into the chilly night . |
| 29 | A wren sang exuberantly , with ‘ short tail ever on the strut/ cocked gadding up above his back . |
| 30 | Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton . |