Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual sail up in the " Columba. " the story is absurdly long already . " |
| 2 | Some church leaders ( and lay people ) are already doing it regularly — guiding individuals in their praying , Bible reading , daily living — others , already over-busy , might well groan at the thought of the faithful queueing up for individual direction . |
| 3 | And the Dutch and the English put up with this for about fifteen seconds . |
| 4 | Still more are the public fed up with escapes which succeed , and they will be appalled to hear from my right hon. Friend that the cost of damage to our prisons last year exceeded £100 million . |
| 5 | The shock of the change of circumstances was sufficiently numbing to dampen any inclination to run riot , particularly after the painful build up of events which led to the final arrest . |
| 6 | He 's wirily built , not tall : large feet in huge old leather boots , and here , as later on the steep pull up onto the Crazy Pinnacle , he climbs with a deft , urgent economy . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll give it another twenty-four hours , and see what the British come up with , ’ said Odell finally . |
| 8 | ‘ Irish political parties , and this includes Sinn Fein , must be prepared to assist the British to face up to their responsibilities regarding the Unionists and to face up to our responsibilities towards them also . |
| 9 | Just to prove that the Slovenians do not have a monopoly on canoeing competition labels on alcoholic drinks , the French came up with this pleasant number . |
| 10 | This has had major impacts on occupational structure and the social make up of the town , on lifestyles , culture and politics . |
| 11 | However , even those murders in real life that rise above the simple snatching up of the kitchen knife in the middle of a husband and wife row are much , much less cunningly contrived than that . |
| 12 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 13 | The Danzig police , who had been early to convert — almost as a bloc — to Nazism , began the ominous rounding up of oppositionist politicians , communists , activists from the Centre Party and those editors and journalists who remained hostile to the NSDAP . |
| 14 | Showing the history of the USAAF/USAF from 1931 to 1953 it shows the early development with B-10 bombers helping out during the flooding of 1935 , film is included of the first B-17s , a type that was delivered in 1937 , the expansion programmes of the late 1930s show the tremendous build up of men and machines . |
| 15 | The first was an ace , the second opened up in court well enough for him to steam in and put away a brilliant backhand volley . |
| 16 | But , predictably enough , the three turned up with three moose and bargained them all aboard , one on each wing , the third across the fuselage . |
| 17 | The 2nd KONR Div. , formed at Heuberg , was now mobilised ; and the 1st Div. , to the exasperation of Field-Marshal Schörner , marched south from the Oder to link up with these compatriots . |
| 18 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 19 | The accurate hitting of targets in September owes much to the decisions made as to whether or not to confirm offers to those who have not quite met the conditions , a process strongly influenced by estimates ( based on past experience ) of the likely take up by those that have . |
| 20 | The second is the increased take up of council tax housing benefits which we anticipate , you can blame the government for that . |
| 21 | With a firm promise of funding from Giuliano Amato , and the current loosening up of Italy 's political system as the previous paralysis is broken by resignations in the wake of corruption scandals , the outlook for solving Venice 's problems looks brighter . |
| 22 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 23 | This has resulted in the gradual piling up of the Himalayas . |
| 24 | The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made . |
| 25 | Therefore , while absence may spell the end of acquaintanceship , it will not in itself destroy friendship ; and while Dr Johnson was right to say that we should keep our friendships in good repair , the perpetual shoring up of friendship might suggest that it were less enduring than we had supposed . |
| 26 | In 1958 at the Club 's Golden Jubilee celebrations , Charles Luker recalled his early years when the rough lived up to its name and when after each game very golf club head was well rubbed down with emery cloth to prevent it rusting . |
| 27 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 28 | The latter lived up to their name with gusto by getting helplessly drunk , being in a celebratory mood because they 'd signed their lucrative CBS contract that very afternoon . |
| 29 | It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year . |
| 30 | They recruit highly-paid expatriates and Mozambicans ; the latter earn up to twenty five times the salary of their colleagues in government service . |