Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orkney Islands Council did not give up without a fight . |
| 2 | They did , however , provide a good deal of entertainment for the rest of the group and would be missed if they did not turn up for a game . |
| 3 | However , these positive steps still did not add up to a radical new direction for farming on the scale that is needed . |
| 4 | The difficult search for a replacement for Bean after his retirement did not come up with a suitable candidate ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) . |
| 5 | There were , however , some cases in which the model did not come up with a valid parse , that is , a pattern that represents complete coverage of the input by a set of nonoverlapping words . |
| 6 | In those circumstances , vitamin and mineral deficiencies do not crop up in a couple of weeks . |
| 7 | Do not stand up for a few moments . |
| 8 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 9 | • If you wake during the night ( sometimes because you need to empty your bladder ) then return to bed and relax as soon as possible , Do not get up for a cup of tea or snack as this will give misleading information to your body clock . |
| 10 | Secondly , although the anecdotal nature of my illustrations do not add up to a seriously informative lecture , with full classifications and statistical support , I do hope they identify areas of particular neglect in our English language studies , and suggest the fruitfulness of these topics for further work . |
| 11 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook said earlier , we have seen only a few small and rather insignificant measures that do not add up to a large impact on our criminal justice system , which is crying out for fundamental change . |
| 12 | It is very difficult at times to say whether the clusters do really add up to a representation of the whole . |
| 13 | Slowly she discovered tricks of the trade such as weighting her hems so that they did n't blow up in a breeze and she gradually acquired a coterie of designers , including Catherine Walker , David Sassoon and Victor Edelstein , whom she now relies upon . |
| 14 | ‘ If you did n't light up like a firework on festa night whenever I touch you , I could understand . ’ |
| 15 | She did n't feel up to a zealous dyke conversion . |
| 16 | The video shop did n't open up until a few minutes after ten . |
| 17 | The rose did n't give up without a struggle . |
| 18 | I did n't come up with a theory immediately , though I had hunches which were difficult to put into words . |
| 19 | You did n't turn up for a meeting two weeks ago . ’ |
| 20 | The old man did n't turn up for a week , and then two weeks and then three weeks and everybody was fairly in despair . |
| 21 | Some spoilsports did n't turn up with a teddy , but others more than made up for them . |
| 22 | ‘ I work in sales and am sure none of my clients would take me seriously if I did n't turn up in a sharp suit . |
| 23 | The times of death seemed to span the whole day , but he could n't be sure the thirty-eight covered everybody who died that day because the numbers of each certificate did n't add up to a complete sequence . |
| 24 | With an Epilady you do n't end up with a prickly pear . |
| 25 | And you will , if you do n't end up with a house fire you may end up with nasty burns or even electric shock . |
| 26 | For the dealers , selling drugs is one way to ensure that they do n't end up in a shanty town . |
| 27 | So you do n't finish up with a battery that as soon as you 've used it for about a minute , that 's it ca n't get any more |
| 28 | ‘ If I 'm dreaming I hope I do n't wake up for a long time , ’ he says . |
| 29 | That erm when the contract 's finished , if they do n't pay up within a certain date |
| 30 | Now um these percentages do n't add up to a hundred . |