Example sentences of "up [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 2 | When it opened Tendring and Colchester were recognised blackspots for teenage pregnancies and the clinic was set up expressly to reduce the number of gymslip mums . |
| 3 | Local groups complain that the guidelines are bring drawn up expressly to meet the requirements of the port — the first of its type in Britain — and the Dash 7 aircraft that will fly to it From Britain 's regional airports and , later , abroad . |
| 4 | I bet he 's not tightened it up properly to seal it . |
| 5 | A European Community fund , set up effectively to bribe boat people to go and Hanoi to take them back , has secured less than half the £80 million it needs . |
| 6 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 7 | Still holding her arm , he reached up slowly to tip her chin back . |
| 8 | But no , there were n't any cafés here , only kiosks to buy drinks and snacks , and you had to prop yourself up somewhere to nosh them . |
| 9 | ‘ Then after the war , Disney and Reagan , he was running the Screen Actors Guild , they ganged up together to feed names to the McCarthy Committee … ’ |
| 10 | Many scientists saw at once its far-reaching implications and a whole spate of major papers were published in 1967 and 1968 , which quite suddenly added up together to make a completely new way of looking at the Earth 's main working parts : Plate Tectonics . |
| 11 | It 's , it 's not a , it 's , I do n't add the sheets up together to get to the er top sheet . |
| 12 | To build things up only to cast them down . |
| 13 | This inspired a mini revival by the Quakers and John Weldon hit the post at the other end , with Peter Lentinue following up only to put a simple chance wide of the post . |
| 14 | The phone rings in the night , you pick it up only to hear heavy breathing , silence or a volley of screamed obscenities . |
| 15 | On suddenly realising he is dreaming , he may try to wake up only to find that his body seems paralysed . |
| 16 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 17 | The photosetter churned out the columns of type as a film , which had to be pasted up manually to form a complete page for the printing plate cameras . |
| 18 | Yeah I definitely think she ought to have have a check up better to have a check you and it be nothing , than just keep hanging on saying it 'll go away and it does n't , it just gets worse . |
| 19 | In an undercover police operation in London a shop was set up purportedly to buy and sell jewellery commercially ; it was staffed solely by undercover officers purporting to be shady jewellers willing to buy stolen property . |
| 20 | He smiled a slow smile as his eyes swept over her , and one hand reached up suddenly to cup her chin . |
| 21 | Many go to establishments set up especially to deal with British national tastes in food , drink , and entertainment . |
| 22 | First Benny had turned her back on him in public and told him to go home without her after he had driven up especially to collect her . |
| 23 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 24 | We were brought up nicely to go with my father who used to sing in the church choir . |
| 25 | Although the technology is available now , it will not be launched commercially until the first quarter of 1994 , because Ms Burke said , she wanted to be sure the company was geared up sufficiently to cope with any demands made on it . |
| 26 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 27 | Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill ! |
| 28 | Sometimes it can take up to eight miles before it is warmed up enough to stop having to keep a foot on the accelerator at traffic lights , etc . |
| 29 | This would cause the earths atmosphere to heat up enough to kill most forms of life and would also blanket out the suns light for years to come . |
| 30 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |