Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His godson , Harry Hubbard , is a young Agency aspirant who joins up just as the Cold War is getting hot . |
| 2 | It joins up again . |
| 3 | Then it all joins up again and goes back in , goes along here , so everything that goes down there , the ten amps goes through this one again , and back into the battery . |
| 4 | Yeah and then it joins up together does n't it ? |
| 5 | No-one lives up here in the cleft of the White Kielder Burn . |
| 6 | Allen-key truss rod adjustment lives up here , too , under the ‘ Bass Collection ’ embossed plastic cover . |
| 7 | He lives up just two or three mile up the road there , . |
| 8 | ‘ Who lives up there ? ’ he asked , pointing towards the ceiling . |
| 9 | I 've got an auntie that lives up there . |
| 10 | I do n't know who 's up the top , who lives up there I mean |
| 11 | I 've got an auntie that lives up there . |
| 12 | Conran is first and foremost an entrepreneur , who lives up magnificently to his own definition of what such a person should be : someone who takes risks after carefully assessing the opportunities available to him . |
| 13 | Brian Everthorpe , who is hanging over Shirley 's desk , straightens up guiltily . |
| 14 | Mops his brow with a sweat band on his left wrist , straightens up now , comes steaming in again to bowl to that 's a quick ball and fends down into the gully , off the back foot , short bouncing steered it down too smooth . |
| 15 | STILL Martin Fry 's most memorable achievement , and a record which stands up astonishingly well , thanks to Trevor Horn 's ground-breaking production and Fry 's songs . |
| 16 | The snakes have gone now and Laverne stands up again with difficulty . |
| 17 | He stands up carefully and reaches out both hands . |
| 18 | It is perhaps worth recording here , particularly for the benefit of Alan , to whom I am copying this letter , that the idea , while being born out of a most pleasant lunch with Terri Peralla , stands up well in my view to critical evaluation . |
| 19 | erm yes , we , we have problems in this country in relation to cleanliness and erm litter free areas and various other factors , but in genuine terms our English hotel still stands up well in comparison with our European and American colleagues . |
| 20 | ( ROS stands up restlessly and flaps his arms . ) |
| 21 | 3 The partner stands up straight . |
| 22 | Sort of stands up really straight and rigid . |
| 23 | He stands up there , jist under the score board . ’ |
| 24 | Is she better when she stands up now ? |
| 25 | The flycatcher stands up more stiffly . |
| 26 | An Irish Development Authority spokesman said that it was continuing the battle for a complete retention of Galway , and arguing that ‘ Ireland , under any independent analysis , stands up more strongly than Scotland . ’ |
| 27 | And I think this one stands up quite nicely on its own . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , if this war wound stands up ter walkin' up those stairs I might be able ter get it down ter the dustbin for yer , ’ he said with a grimace . |
| 29 | Ironically , this film stands up better today than many of its male social realist counterparts . |
| 30 | The most memorable bit of Sweet Dreams was not Jessica Lange 's admirable performance as Patsy Cline , it was the lip-smacking tastelessness of her last plane ride : chug-chug , engine failure , oh dear , engine starts up again , phew that was close , oh no , watch out for that mountain . |