Example sentences of "up [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er with the new contracts that started in September erm basically it seems that some teachers are having to do bits of cleaning themselves to keep their their classroom up to up to scratch up to the standards they ought they ought to be . |
| 2 | ‘ To be realistic we need other teams to slip up to sneak through in the league so the cup is really our priority , ’ says 29-goal striker David McCallen who grabbed that sensational winner against his former club Linfield in the quarter-finals . |
| 3 | She falls in love , but soon realises that her political role is more important , and ends up riding off into the sunset with her troops to join Zapata . |
| 4 | In naturally acid areas , or where acid rain has made the water more acid , lead pipes are a serious hazard to health because the water strips the metal from the pipe walls and it ends up coming out of the tap . |
| 5 | I get head spin , and end up lolling out of the car , dribbling through my nose onto the tarmac just to get the vile bitter taste of nicotine out of my mouth . |
| 6 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
| 7 | The girl later admitted she made the story up to get back at the teacher for punishing her boyfriend . |
| 8 | With this firmly decided , she made her way up to change out of the trousers and sweater she had been wearing all that long day . |
| 9 | The south east ridge leads down into a bowl of porridge-like peat , so I bore off eastwards , still rough enough , into the paring wind , crossing the Allt an t-Strathain Mhoir high up to drop down to the church . |
| 10 | If it was n't your family you would need to come up come up with the dosh . |
| 11 | Not content with just the interminable Benson and Hedges World Series Cup , the players also had to fit in the Benson and Hedges Challenge between the fourth and fifth Tests , a jamboree dreamed up to latch on to the sporting frenzy which the TV and marketing people had decreed would seize the nation when the America 's Cup yacht races were staged off Fremantle . |