Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Orc army under Gorfang Rotgut besieges Barak Varr and later joins up with Orc and Goblin tribes led by Morglum Necksnapper to attack Karak Azul . |
| 2 | Mixed up with magazines and newspapers were the proofs of a book she had translated , Eiger , Wall of Death . |
| 3 | Erm It all gets mixed up of course because there 's , there 's there 's erm erm Russia which is seen as a power , you know the reactionary power . |
| 4 | Yet the country 's performance in this area hardly lives up to promises when the relevant laws were passed in 1978 . |
| 5 | In the same period , a smaller but nonetheless very important gap was also opening up between Barth and Brunner . |
| 6 | On a recent visit to New Zealand , my wife and I had the good fortune to meet up with Alf and Muriel Newton . |
| 7 | She never managed to meet up with Vivienne and , as there did n't seem to be much happening at Dingwalls , we decided to drive down to Brighton , all of us crammed into the back of the Mini van . |
| 8 | Because there is pressure on departments in humanistic subjects to appear up to date and efficient , it is much easier to persuade funding bodies to give money for computers and software than to buy manuscripts , rare books , or second and third copies of frequently used library texts . |
| 9 | They can be fined up to £2,000 if they fail to comply with this legislation . ’ |
| 10 | Firms are to be fined up to £5000 if they are late filing their accounts with Companies House . |
| 11 | The people of the district rose up in arms and reinstated the abbot , but their triumph was short-lived . |
| 12 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd rear up on players if they said anything and footballers are n't the bravest people in the world , so they used to think twice before they said anything to me and that helped me . ’ |
| 14 | Blackburn cracked under the pressure , as Kerslake and Jones lined up for shots and David Mitchell cleaned up . |
| 15 | The relatively low incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome among Bangladeshi babies in Britain represents something of a paradox , since many of these babies grow up in conditions that would predict a relatively higher incidence of the syndrome . |
| 16 | Differential association starts with the observation that we all grow up in environments where we receive , from our associates , definitions both favourable and unfavourable to the acquisition of the motives for and the techniques to commit crime . |
| 17 | Up to half of the houses were boarded up in areas that were starving . |
| 18 | The examining teams are selected by the chief examiners and made up of practising bankers — members who are interested in keeping up to date and ‘ putting something back ’ into the profession . |
| 19 | The bar chart , built up as you go , shows you how you are keeping up to programme and teaches you about the idiosyncrasies of bar charts ! |
| 20 | We can not ignore major factors such as the poll tax , keeping up with rent and mortgage payments and buying the basics which cost the same for all of us . |
| 21 | Vague objectives might include maintaining a market share or keeping up with technology or offering good value to the customer . |
| 22 | IT CA N'T be very long before a rapist or a murderer stands up in court and pleads in defence : ‘ It was n't me , Your Honour , it was the Press . ’ |
| 23 | Professor Sloman has brought spelling up to date except where this would involve changes in pronunciation , accentuation and capitalization . |
| 24 | But then I started getting into trouble in approved school — running away , things like that , ending up in Brighton and Margate and being arrested for being an absconder from council care . |
| 25 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 26 | Germany 's Jewish Council , noting Monday 's anniversary of the Nazis ' 1938 Kristallnacht ( Night of the Shattering Glass ) pogrom , said the Right-wing resurgence obliged Germans more than ever before to stand up for democracy and tolerance . |
| 27 | Frankly , I do n't think he has the moral power or courage to stand up to Dublin and take Dublin on . |
| 28 | Thank goodness for people prepared to stand up to authority and tackle the system they believe is wrong . ’ |
| 29 | I could n't imagine any of them having the nerve to stand up to Filmer and demand their money . |
| 30 | She drew comparisons between the present crisis concerning Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and the experience of 1938 , declaring that " Czechoslovakia of all countries needs no reminding of the need for nations to stand up to bullies and do so at once " . |