Example sentences of "that [vb past] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 2 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 3 | He was standing well apart from them as he gave Joe and his mother the details , and as the tears rolled down his cheeks Joe sensed a great loneliness in his cousin that seemed to link up with a similar feeling within himself , and he was drawn to Martin to put his arms about him , and when their faces touched both were wet . |
| 4 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |
| 5 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 6 | The organ could not approach this strangled cry that came welling up from the bowels , from the primitive consciousness of life , of pain , of joy ; the long , tortured note that slowly unwound your intestines to be twanged by the electric guitarist . |
| 7 | Perkin would n't have risked any way to kill me that meant creeping up on me , not after what he 'd seen . |
| 8 | His eyes narrowed on her wind-tossed hair and strayed down to the skirt that kept billowing up around her legs . |
| 9 | On the Friday Lorenzo Mendoza lost his temper with a pony that kept going up with him . |
| 10 | If ever there was anything that looked made up of outsides , it was a plane flying . |
| 11 | Was n't at all sure that she wanted him to have learned anything about her that went to add up to what made her tick . |
| 12 | And what I was gon na say Alan was , perhaps like Mr you know we had one of the ones sitting here that did go up to two services . |
| 13 | Of those that did turn up at their parish churches , a good number behaved in a manner that was anything but reverential : talking , joking , spitting , arguing , and catching up on lost sleep . |
| 14 | Another thing that did come up at that training day the other day was that we all need a , a , a , anybody that 's going to do any sort of appraising will need to know what the erm training programme is |
| 15 | OVER THE past 20 years the West Indian pace attack has systematically demolished every batting line-up that dared turn up at the same ground . |
| 16 | But , whatever the chain of events that had led up to it , the result was the same . |
| 17 | He brought our conversation to an end by alluding once more to the past ; and in comparing the difference between his present achievements and the tribulations that had led up to it ( though he did not put it quite like that ) , he appeared to coin on the Spot an Epigram which , so far as I know , he never committed to print but of which there are echoes in The Family Reunion . |
| 18 | She assumed that , having had time to think things over , he was going to come back with the decision to tell Marc everything that had led up to this crazy engagement of theirs . |
| 19 | Later that evening , Simon had been one of the crowd that had ended up at their house for coffee . |
| 20 | Was she hearing , in the gentle wind , eddying along the purpling coastline , the ghost lamentations of the thousands of sgitheanachs that had ended up against their will in her country over the Big Water ? |
| 21 | I saw an open shed stacked with timber , graded according to its thickness , and then , as we turned the flint gable , there was Laura crouched before the kiln in a muddle of faggots and fire-irons , her rump in the air , legs bare beneath the sawn-off fringes of her denim shorts , wearing a blue-grey sleeveless T-shirt that had ridden up around her waist . |
| 22 | What happened to all these girlfriends and this person that had phoned up on Stephen phoned up er it 's Wednesday right , and Stephen phoned up Tuesday and twenty five to eleven and says can I talk to Stephen , says hang on a minute who is it ? |
| 23 | He had come from a bulk tanker that had tied up in the oil terminal in Kuwait harbour , thanked the Master who had allowed him to work his passage from the port of Perth , and gone ashore . |
| 24 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 25 | At the start of the next session , mindful of the head of steam that had built up on the issue , Ede announced that the Government had decided to recommend the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the possible limitation or modification of the death penalty . |
| 26 | In that time , its geography had changed little , the only difference being that more and more houses had squeezed themselves on to the mound of detritus that had built up over generations to form the hill on which the city squatted , above the highest level of flood the river could attain . |
| 27 | Laughter seemed to break down some of the barrier of embarrassment that had built up between them and when Carrie lit two candles she handed one to Seb and said , ‘ Good night , Seb . |
| 28 | Dressed in the plant 's uniform of white overalls and cap , he was conducting an exercise to release the excess energy that had built up in the honeycomb matrix of graphite blocks which surrounded the uranium nuclear fuel . |
| 29 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |
| 30 | It had been his mind , not his feet , that had given up at Royston — the mind which foolishly recognized the right of the feet to protest . |