Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 2 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
| 3 | You know I think Leicester are one of the er one of the real favourites in this Division to go up . |
| 4 | With a First National Bank loan secured on your property you have the opportunity to borrow up to £50,000 for any purpose whatsoever . |
| 5 | It means that there are holes in the DLV's willingness to connect up the evidence and enforce the conclusions it generates . |
| 6 | The " cooling-off " period in the case where the debtor makes an offer , allows the debtor the opportunity to cancel up to five days from receipt of the second copy of the agreement which must be sent to him ( s68(a) ) . |
| 7 | So we made the decision to go up Beinn Damh , not a Munro , but nevertheless a divine mountain of 902 metres situated conveniently behind the cottage . |
| 8 | Under the contract , a copy of which was leaked to the media , Nur Elmy Osman , describing himself as " minister of state for health , Republic of Somalia " , granted Acher a 20-year concession to treat up to 550,000 tons a year of industrial and hospital waste , including " solid and liquid waste of the toxic type " , at a disposal facility in Somalia and to store the treated waste in a landfill . |
| 9 | Their only son at the time , a cousin of my father 's called William Bayles Brown , went out on Cotherstone Moor in a snow storm to gather up some sheep , and never came back . |
| 10 | ‘ Do I have your permission to go up to the belvedere and look around ? ’ |
| 11 | With increasing ferocity its members lost no opportunity to whip up feeling against anyone who supported the aims of the French Revolution . |
| 12 | The ensemble should , of course , not be too sexy , but polite , though not conciliatory — nothing that could suggest an inclination to join his mother in the kitchen to whip up a batch of fairy cakes . |
| 13 | But they were being given permission to borrow up to £628 million provided £75 million were raised by way of ERDF grants . |
| 14 | How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ? |
| 15 | Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 16 | I spent all the next seven months waiting for my case to come up and fighting to keep my daughter . |
| 17 | ‘ And as it is the first case to come up in Scotland , it could help other people in the same circumstances . ’ |
| 18 | If , as Stop Hinkley Expansion suspected , such fatalism was not shared by the general population of the West Country , then it was vital to get the silent majority to stand up and be counted . |
| 19 | It depends really does , cos Joe said something about it depends if her boyfriend 's got any money to come up or something or |
| 20 | Cheltenham & Gloucester and the Yorkshire are taking the discount route to drum up business . |
| 21 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 22 | A willingness to stand up and promote his trade with gusto typifies Mr Smythe 's approach to his job as chairman his Association . |
| 23 | Crucially , it 's faster ; it wo n't take an age to scroll through a document , spell checking takes only seconds and you wo n't find yourself waiting for the word processor to catch up with your touch typing . |
| 24 | Today is an Edinburgh holiday and so I have a day off — a good opportunity to catch up with various things , and the plumber is arriving shortly to re-seal my bath . |
| 25 | Over 40 former staff took the opportunity to catch up with old friends and discuss their pension queries with Beryl Aldridge from Pensions Department , Hammersmith . |
| 26 | It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to hide up further along the road towards Maidenhead , and then to descend upon the unfortunate post-boy . |
| 27 | Rights are a central issue in being assertive ( see page 8 ) , since a decision to be assertive , as opposed to aggressive or submissive , is in effect a decision to stand up for your rights in a way that respects other people 's rights . |
| 28 | This problem is common with fine lines when you tie any type of knot which entails pulling the line above the hook to tighten up the knot . |
| 29 | Patrick took the opportunity to stand up . |
| 30 | The Minister has an opportunity to stand up and be counted by the travelling , suffering public in Scotland . |