Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was due to go up to the Blue Mountains that morning and she started having pains , she said . |
| 2 | The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit . |
| 3 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 4 | I think Chris Patten is right to stand up to the Chinese , even though it may make very little difference in the end . |
| 5 | We were up early the next morning at 06.00 to go up to the station to catch the 07.19 Leighton - Euston train , which is a semi-stopper , it took an hour to get there . |
| 6 | This has had major impacts on occupational structure and the social make up of the town , on lifestyles , culture and politics . |
| 7 | And of course Mr our salesman er he took it up to that big estate and er Mr had got too old to go up to the shooting on the horse you know . |
| 8 | All this adds up to the fact that NDBs are thoroughly unreliable . |
| 9 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 10 | For many Arabs the invasion of Kuwait confirmed Saddam as the foremost pan-Arab nationalist leader and the first Arab ruler since Egypt 's Abdel Gamal Nasser who was fully prepared to stand up to the USA . |
| 11 | Then once this morning Fred 's bum was on his blanket and Windy curled up by the side of him . |
| 12 | I shall not sleep , she told herself , I must not sleep , and shivered in her nightdress on the edge of the single bed , afraid to reach up to the hook for her dressing gown . |
| 13 | They we were half riding , half pushing up into the mountains . |
| 14 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 15 | I want James in the front today because the buggy is easier to tip up with the lightest one in the front . |
| 16 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 17 | In many pregnant women , this shows up in the form of food aversions — a strong dislike for dishes or drinks previously enjoyed . |
| 18 | This is supported by reference to three key features ( p. 114ff. ) , summarised below : Alternating decasyllabic verse is " lighter " in terms of its overall structure ; this shows up in the high degree of promotion of underlyingly unstressed function words to relative stressed status . |
| 19 | Tithonus creates a sense of emotional anguish by Tennyson 's use of inversion between lines five and six , ‘ Me only cruel immortality/consumes ’ : This breaking up of the main image of the poem suggests that Tithonus has been captured by immortality . |
| 20 | intended to stay , because the immediate reaction to something like that happening is n't necessarily erm , all bad , I mean people are quite glad that they are still alive and they 're quite prepared to put up with the possible fallout of the consequences of that so that they can stay in their own homes . |
| 21 | Bricks , old tiles , new tiles , quarry tiles , Mexican , French or Spanish tiles , ceramic tiles , slate and even marble facing all look spectacular — provided , of course , that you are prepared to put up with the clattering noise from chairs being pulled up to the table and pushed back . |
| 22 | people , is not , are not just opting out of marriage , but they 're not prepared to put up with the situation , |
| 23 | Concrete must be used within four house of mixing , and it is usually easier to keep up with the latter type , which is laid as it is mixed . |
| 24 | He arrived at the crowded town square near Bogota and was born shoulder high to climb up onto the back of a truck to make his campaign speech . |
| 25 | Red Bank Road Bispham , with open rack 134 coming up from the Depot to go into service as an afternoon ‘ special ’ to the Gynn . |
| 26 | This tied up with the number who had breeding stock and were therefore likely to be needed as assistants at a calving or lambing . |
| 27 | Floodwater leaves sand on the planks and this sweeps up into the banks with cornices through which it is possible to step inadvertently . |
| 28 | Now he was prepared to live up to the role . |
| 29 | Three days before you go away make sure you do a proper clean up of the tank . |
| 30 | Issuance of Treasury bills therefore amounted to only £100 million per week , with the largest part of this taken up by the banking sector . |