Example sentences of "up [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder why she is crying before breakfast , and whether she wakes up weeping many days . |
| 2 | Measured up got any quotes ? |
| 3 | ‘ He did n't like none of it , so he sort of copped out , gave up eating one fine day , till he could n't stand up no more , could n't do what he was told on the airfield . |
| 4 | The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme was set up to enable social scientists , who have obtained a doctorate , to work full-time on original and independent research for a three year period . |
| 5 | The Postdoctoral Research Fellowshop Scheme was set up to enable social scientists , who have obtained a doctorate , to work full-time on original and independent research for a three year period . |
| 6 | So many fans are turning up to see Premier side CHAMDEN CITY these days that the club has been forced to buy the neighbouring supermarket . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't let her get to you , ’ a voice murmured at her side , and she looked up to see one of the other actors , a tall good-looking young man called Gavin James . |
| 8 | Kelly looked up to see Heraldic bolting towards the start with Damien clinging vainly upside down round his neck . |
| 9 | ‘ She might have gone up to see Angy and found Delia Forbes there … ’ |
| 10 | There was naked bathing on a hot summer 's night after a stirring performance , there were wondering Welsh friends and neighbours up to see this phenomenon and afraid that his Welshness might be too loud : ‘ The English are afraid of us , ’ said Burton and brawled , now and then , to prove it . |
| 11 | Thousands of people rolled up to see this infamous figure in the summer of 1932 . |
| 12 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
| 13 | At last he relaxed his grip on her back and pulled himself up to sit straight in the purgatorial chair . |
| 14 | If Thatcher ends up opposing that sort of modernisation of institutions , then she will deserve to be denounced as simply reactionary and perverse . |
| 15 | Right erm all the rules people are tired etcetera so their rates of and knowledge is probably downhill anyway and then we talk about thirty five minutes just to speed up make sure we train them , we 've given them all the input . |
| 16 | So we emphasize that when we 're signing them up make sure you ask when these people come through where they have seen or where how did they find out about us . |
| 17 | Make sure it 's copied up make sure all the sheets that you 've written on are stuck into your book . |
| 18 | A computerised data collection system had to be set up to monitor each general practitioner 's referrals per 1000 patients on the practice list . |
| 19 | Russian dissidents , like the nuclear scientist Andrei Sakharov , continued to be harassed and in Czechoslovakia leaders of the ‘ Charter 77 ’ group , set up to monitor human rights , were arrested in 1979 . |
| 20 | Bustling , cooing visitors upset them , and a ‘ pass the baby ’ session ends up producing piercing screams of genuine distress . |
| 21 | In particular , women who found themselves without a source of male economic support-widows , deserted wives and unmarried mothers — tended to end up drawing poor relief . |
| 22 | Many children grow up to enjoy satisfactory lives who are clinically termed severely handicapped , yet they would apparently be at risk of being allowed to die due to the severity of their handicap . |
| 23 | You may end up preferring these practical , hard-wearing materials in this well-used room . |
| 24 | They may also be set up to carry international traffic , or for the use of particular organisations . |
| 25 | The original bronze which goes with them is an action-figure : an over life-size bearded god , naked , striding , left arm straight out in front , right back and up to hurl some weapon ( fig. 79 ) . |
| 26 | It will produce around twelve horse power and can be connected up to drive various pumps and machines as well as the mill stones . |
| 27 | It 's even possible that they may end up bringing all forty-one casualties on the UN 's list . |
| 28 | Typically we do n't we implement it in software and even in software it 's very quick because computers are ideally set up to implement these sort of systems . |
| 29 | In June he was appointed chair of the Central Qualification Commission set up to scrutinize former security service personnel recruited to such bodies as the State Protection Office and the police . |
| 30 | A joint committee of the Commons and the Lords has been set up to scrutinize statutory instruments , and therefore to facilitate parliamentary review of subordinate legislation . |