Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [det] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up with more self-esteem and confidence than those who are allowed to get away with behaving in any way they like . |
| 2 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 3 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 4 | After lots of thought I 've come up with this solution and hope it will be helpful to others . |
| 5 | This is not the first time the issue of control has come up in this column but because yours is a sign that tends to resist going with the flow , all too often you meet people and circumstances that appear to block your path . |
| 6 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 7 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 8 | It 's taken me quite a while to come up with this team and i 'm sure i 've missed some absolute wankers out , but here goes . |
| 9 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 10 | Excuse me for not writing more as I have to catch up with some sleep and get to a meeting about the course by 10 a.m. tomorrow ! |
| 11 | By day of course , why not team up with another couple and get out and about sightseeing or discovering those hide away places that will linger for ever in your memories ? |
| 12 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 13 | Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership . |
| 14 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 15 | A great deal of confidence has been built up in this system and NASA regularly publish reports of incidents notified to them , though of course without any reference to the individuals involved . |
| 16 | Eventually four relatives of Anwar 's turned up with more drink and food , and gifts of cloth and pots . |
| 17 | Will he confirm that it would be grossly irresponsible for any Government to cut the standard rate of income tax when public borrowing is about to shoot up in that way and that consequently , if the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes such a cut in his next Budget , he will have to make it up by increasing other taxes — perhaps VAT ? |
| 18 | Some were veterans of News on Sunday 's many faction fights but now , for once , they stopped ganging up on each other and ganged up on Sutton . |
| 19 | It forms a film all over the surface and essentially erm climbs up through this film and , and will empty out of the bucket . |
| 20 | It is extremely important that you do not give up at this point and this is where training really begins . |
| 21 | The more advanced desktop publishing packages have begun to pick up on this requirement but few can manage either the length or the revision information that the typical TechDoc user needs . |
| 22 | But it 's not a fault if you , erm , sort of walk up to that ball and erm , do this , it 's not a fault . |
| 23 | I 'm just fed up with this ankle and … and I should n't be here . ’ |
| 24 | Any problems with the wording of the draft questionnaire should show up at this stage and can be corrected before the real investigation starts . |
| 25 | I 'll see that your salary is made up to this date and a cheque posted on to you . ’ |
| 26 | The sharing and growing up without much money and finding a belief in yourself and the work . |
| 27 | My old man had this thing about all of us [ a family of ten ] growing up in this society and not getting into a black thing . |
| 28 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 29 | The third sister , Mrs. Price has made an imprudent marriage as she has allowed her feeling to overtake her judgement and finally ends up with little money and too many children . |
| 30 | The picture plane is further stressed by the device of dropping the small doors or openings below the bases of the buildings , and by the way in which some of the forms are opened up into each other and fused . |