Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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1 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |
2 | ‘ Fernando ! ’ she cried at last , struggling to sit up . |
3 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
4 | No you got to sit up here in the car seat love , Charlotte get in or you 'll be late |
5 | We do n't want to go up the ass of that flour lorry in front . ’ |
6 | ‘ I do n't want to go up . |
7 | Jarvis did n't much want to do any of these things , but he did want to go up north and admire the old Glasgow PIE , not to mention going back to ride once more San Francisco 's BART , which tunnels deeply through the rock under the Bay . |
8 | I say the choice , but since any even half-curious visitor to the High Pyrenees will want to go up both valleys , it comes down only to deciding which to visit first . |
9 | When the party is over members of the bridal party , and guests , may want to go up to the speakers and personally thank them , complimenting them on a good , amusing speech . |
10 | Or recognising that up there the air might be too rarefied and you do n't want to go up at all . |
11 | You 'd want to go up to them and tell them to do better . " |
12 | ‘ Are you saying he did n't want to go up to Luxor ? ’ |
13 | ‘ Do you want to go up to bed now ? ’ |
14 | Due to being hideosly shy and a little worse for the drink I did n't want to go up to some complete stranger and act like I knew him . |
15 | She said ; I would not want to go up there . |
16 | She said ; I would not want to go up there in this wind . |
17 | So you , you 'd manage on fifteen thousand but then after the twelve months you 'd most probably want to go up to say seventy five percent of your earnings ? |
18 | I do n't want to go up anyway ! |
19 | I noticed that the Barwick men took no chances this time ; as the pole lay in the field it was wired up to an electronic burglar alarm system , but they still took it in turns to sit up and keep an eye on it . |
20 | Alexandra , Lyddy and Janet took it in turns to sit up at night with her . |
21 | On 9 August , 349 arrests were made as the military swooped to round up serving and former IRA activists . |
22 | Smiths are , unfortunately , helping to bolster up all those cruds still clinging to the starting line and holding the starting gun . |
23 | Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas . |
24 | ‘ Do you want to sit up more ? |
25 | I do n't want to stiffen up or I wo n't be able to model anything . ’ |
26 | You may want to light up different parts of the garden at different times of the year as different plants and shrubs come into flower . |
27 | Yes , thought Berdichev ; but I 'm the last person you expected to see up here today . |
28 | Alongside the organisational changes aiming to improve exchanges between Government , the science base , and industry , the industry departments , supported by the Department of Trade and Industry 's ( DTI 's ) Innovation Unit , intend to scale up their activities to promote awareness of the importance of innovation among senior managers in the business community . |
29 | And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises . |
30 | I would like to go to the town today , and she 's awfully she 's no the day and they tend to go up at the end . |