Example sentences of "up that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Pick up that litter . ’
2 As the eruption continues the ejected material piles up round the vent , building up that heap of material that is called a volcano .
3 Not easy getting up that rope with angry snake behind .
4 We said we 'd ring them up that afternoon to see what everybody thought .
5 She expected Nicole to name a restaurant , but instead she named the hotel where she was staying , one of the more expensive hotels in London , and they arranged to meet up that afternoon , in her room .
6 When Ken got up that afternoon — he had n't come home till three in the morning — Wendy said , ‘ I 've really got to go back to work ; I 'm drinking too much : this life is driving me mad . ’
7 She could follow the shoreline all the way to where they had pulled up that afternoon looking for shelter , but that would take hours .
8 The Test and County Cricket Board almost managed to hush up that incident — but BBC TV commentator Jack Bannister exposed it in a book months later .
9 By varying your perfume choice with the frequency you change your smalls , you never build up that resistance ( and thereby avoid the risk of all but suffocating colleagues in a crowded lift with too much ‘ Shalimar ’ while you still ca n't smell a thing ) .
10 And Northamptonshire 's environmental health officers are backing up that message .
11 On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) .
12 How would you like to end up that way ? ’
13 When I mentioned this to my father he said he had to drive up that way and would take me in the car and call back for me within a couple of hours .
14 The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ .
15 There was nothing that could be used for a cradle so obviously she intended keeping it in bed with her , but Sarah had heard tales of babies being smothered like that and she was surprisingly anxious that her newly expected brother or sister would n't end up that way .
16 You 've grown up that way .
17 How can you possibly drive when you 're all wound up that way ? ’
18 Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … .
19 and build yourself up that way .
20 Split them up that way .
21 Have a go at that one first , and work up that way , how 's that sound ?
22 But er But I 've known that story about the er about them coming up that way and they stayed at the the burnside at Dalvaine .
23 Seventh Earl put a foot wrong under Henry the Eighth and ended up that way . ’
24 So we got it up that way .
25 It was set up that way , certainly , but was it set up by him ? ’
26 see and he started up that way and , and the religion was the most popular thing in the country , but all the people were outlaws .
27 I says , I 'm over- qualified for work , I says , and it looks like she 's gon na end up that way if you 're not careful !
28 And you know that , that er I do n't know if you know up that way round at all ?
29 It 's when you walk up that way you know you 're getting near it
30 coming up that way than they do the front window .
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