Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 2 | Walter Long was a country gentleman who played up to that image for all he was worth , using Henry Chaplin- " the squire — as his political model . |
| 3 | ‘ That question 's been going round in my head ever since I woke up in that alley . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , just something I came up with that Ari should be able to do herself . |
| 5 | Th it also has the potential to have new stations opened up along that route , both to serve existing communities and there are plans within the Southern Ryedale Local Plan already for new stations to be opened up . |
| 6 | By good fortune , the crew turned up at that moment . |
| 7 | Er … yes , perhaps just a few more condom and illicit sex gags turned up in that show than normal . ’ |
| 8 | By the time she showed up in that rubbish dump on the Isle of Dogs , there would be little left that was recognisable . |
| 9 | ‘ Brigitte Krone : she was living with one of the families Gustav hid up with that winter . |
| 10 | A product of the tail-end of the Northern Soul scene ( a mid-'70s underground dance phenomenon equivalent to electro/acid 's renegade '90s appeal ) , Tony and Gordon met up at that hotbed of creativity , Stockport Tech and settled in Sheffield . |
| 11 | A product of the tail-end of the Northern Soul scene ( a mid-'70s underground dance phenomenon equivalent to electro/acid 's renegade '90s appeal ) , Tony and Gordon met up at that hotbed of creativity , Stockport Tech and settled in Sheffield . |
| 12 | Bayfield was the senior ‘ pro ’ of the pack , and lived up to that responsibility nobly . |
| 13 | Thick metal cables curved up from that helmet into the ducted roof as though the man had sprouted banded antlers . |
| 14 | There 's an awful lot of good times locked up in that jade , honey , but you 'll never see one of them . |
| 15 | It 'll bring the legend to life ; all Jonathan Ram 's hatred locked up in that beast . |
| 16 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
| 17 | ‘ So you grew up in that house alone with your aunt , ’ Matilda said . |
| 18 | Miguel saw that he was getting nowhere , and gave up on that topic . |
| 19 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 20 | I slipped up on that chess one I got the black and white one |
| 21 | You can , up to a point ( and we did up to that point ) , protect yourself against them with jungle gels and mustard gases , but the trees give no mercy and there are hours of them between Staddajakkstugorna , a mountain hut on the side of Kapasluoppal , and Staloluokta . |
| 22 | Got all his hair tucked up in that thing , you see — otherwise , he 's not so like me , not strikingly so . |
| 23 | Snuggled up on that blanket , little un . |
| 24 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
| 25 | I draw on feeling banked up for that time . |
| 26 | Yesterday afternoon , well it started off on Saturday and he ended up outside that house I 'm outside ours there was three cars in the drive which you can not get ! |
| 27 | That 's how I ended up in that chair . |
| 28 | Do n't forget , I 've seen you in some states , Ruth , practically off your rocker wasting away wrapped up in that sod . |
| 29 | For some reason he picked up on that word and let her cool statement go by for the moment . |