Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking about privatising the National Health Service and opting out of the National Health Service is not actually very helpful because people do n't believe that , they do n't believe it 's er N H S P L C. They do not , it is not a British Gas , it is not a British Telecom , they know it 's not and it devalues your argument if you talk of it in those terms , and it allows Waldergrave to stand up and to renounce and reject your statements and weaken your case . |
| 2 | Unless Opposition Members are prepared to stand up and pledge that they will meet the costs of every private home , no matter how high and heavy , our proposals for 1993 will overtake most of their objections , and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to respond to the debate . |
| 3 | I have to own up and say that I do n't really like applications wanting to be installed into the Windows directory , but because of the way Windows handles wallpaper bitmaps , there 's little option here — the lot has to go there . |
| 4 | The clouds had cleared and the cold stars flashed little blue signals for people of all countries to pick up and decode as they liked . |
| 5 | They are light , easy to set up and transport and they can cover a multitude of grotty walls . |
| 6 | And as we come out I said to Rudy I feel we ought to go up and see if Wendy 's alright , cos she was a bit upset at quarter to twelve . |
| 7 | Rostov tried to sit up and found that he could not . |
| 8 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 9 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 10 | My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror . |
| 11 | When he asked what this meant , he was convinced that he was to get up and go and join the church planting team . |
| 12 | … In a court it would be so easy if I was on the other side to get up and say that in respect of eight of the conditions ‘ We complied and we only contravened the suspended solids condition and we 're very sorry it was 30,000 p.p.m. but you 're not gon na cane us for that are you , Mr Magistrate ? |
| 13 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 14 | I think the health length of waiting lists for operations and the furore about the fact that you 've got to ring up and find where the shortest list is and all that |