Example sentences of "up [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All at once , I sat up as if electrified , for we had driven into a large corrugated iron compound , and there were British soldiers everywhere ! |
| 2 | He was — ’ Susan threw her hands up as if inviting Pascoe 's disbelief . |
| 3 | When feeding characteristically run a little way and then stop , often bobbing head nervously ; head held up as if listening , not down like Knot ( p. 129 ) or Dunlin ( p. 127 ) . |
| 4 | Nearby , several rocks have been piled up as if intended to make a rudimentary windbreak or wall . |
| 5 | stars swam up as if to graze |
| 6 | Wexford brought his beer and as he passed them the man got up as if to take his leave . |
| 7 | Evelyn sprang up as if scalded . |
| 8 | Of modern poets , I had of course spoken to the boys — and to the masters for that matter , for most had ventured no further than Hardy and Houseman , like the Brasenose dons — of Eliot , Pound and the later Yeats ; and I discovered that they lapped this up as if slaking a mental thirst . |
| 9 | Harry got up as if to throw her out . |
| 10 | It woke her and for a moment she struggled , her hands coming up as if to tear it away . |
| 11 | come up after and say , ah , that bit late for |
| 12 | Two things enable you to create good programs : knowing what the sounds you hear are made up of and knowing how your rack works . |
| 13 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
| 14 | He said it was not easy to come to Cork with a favourite 's tag and play against a posse of cuemen he had grown up with and played so often in amateur competition . |
| 15 | This then was the paradox Neela grew up with and had to learn to grow out of . |
| 16 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 17 | My parents called me Glen after the bandleader who took one too many cross-channel flights Swing was the music they 'd grown up with and courted to . |
| 18 | Does their performance vary with age , that is to say , do they catch up with or fall progressively further behind white children as they grow older ? |
| 19 | The need to put roofs over heads is the excuse councillors always came up with when confronted with the consequences . |
| 20 | The line was plucking nicely through my fingers and , with my heart in my mouth , I wound the pick up in and struck . |
| 21 | This approach emphasises the ‘ state form ’ .9 Like most Marxist analyses , this approach still envisages the state as ‘ capitalist ’ : an apparatus caught up in and managing the social relations of capitalism . |
| 22 | These people had been driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they stood up in and had struggled through a war-torn countryside , sometimes in sub-zero temperatures , to reach a refuge where food , shelter and warm clothing were in very short supply . |
| 23 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 24 | All trips pick you up from and return you to right outside your hotel . |
| 25 | Are you also saying that soap operas , in particular — it may be other programmes as well — are picking up on and creating a space for discussing topics that really are preoccupying people , and rendering conscious a lot of issues that are ‘ out there ’ already ? |
| 26 | Now it turns out that the Government knew all along what they were up to but told them to lie . |
| 27 | Erm but this line involving , , er was actually er part of a much bigger scheme that was put forward about eighteen forty , and really involved er a line from near Cross to , on to , on to , and then up to and connecting . |
| 28 | A ntecedent events are those events that precede , lead up to and set the stage for the disobedient |
| 29 | We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high . |
| 30 | Even if the primary focus is the needs of an older person , the counsellor can not afford to ‘ take sides ’ , but should instead aim to help the whole family face up to and develop a wider understanding of the problems and difficulties that exist in old age , and in caring for older people . |