Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most welcome caller is not the one who rings up with a carefully arranged bouquet of words delivered ‘ at the double ’ ; it is the one who calls to enquire , to listen , and to sympathise when necessary , leaving the elderly person feeling warmed and cared for . |
| 2 | No detergent is wasted either because Siemens has come up with a specially designed Ecovalve . |
| 3 | Recognising the problem , district councillors have come up with a much needed cash injection to ease the crisis . |
| 4 | Now if you 're a majority party you can instruct officers to come up with a specially paid reduction pol you pay for the policy , so you can then structure the system or look at the service and come up with a reduction , come up with an expansion |
| 5 | There were only thirty visitors over the weekend Only one signing up for an organically grown allotment.It seems the message has n't yet taken root with the general public . |
| 6 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 7 | Ian Perry , fed up with the daily commute on overcrowded trains and a boring bank job in the City , traded in his four-bedroomed detached house in New Malden for a village post office and general store in Paul , near Land 's End . |
| 8 | The first sees Dawn Milligan 's Valentinos Joy , drawn favourably in trap two after winning its last two opens at Sunderland , lining up against the highly respected Belle Vue dog No Joe Soap ( trap 4 ) and Brough Park 's Movealong Sharp ( 3 ) . |
| 9 | Meanwhile on May 29 the National Assembly approved an economic recovery plan drawn up by a newly appointed economic adviser , Alassane Ouattara , president of the West African Central Bank , in conjunction with the IMF and World Bank . |
| 10 | Later , as a result of other movements in the rocks , fissures opened up in the slowly solidifying granite . |
| 11 | I teamed up with a well known Devon journalist Phil Day , then on the Express & Echo , on an unofficial freelance basis . |
| 12 | Earlier this year Central and Anglia teamed up in a jointly owned group , Television Sales & Marketing Services , which has now won contracts to sell time for Border TV and the cable channel Discovery . |
| 13 | They turned to look up at the hastily nailed boards that had replaced the shattered windows . |
| 14 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 15 | Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan . |
| 16 | A team of four assassins , made up from the now disbanded Security Police , have vowed to kill Mobuto while he 's here in America . |
| 17 | Jamie is propped up in a neatly made bed on which lie two discarded magazines of which he might have read the covers . |
| 18 | The longing and impatience to be privatised , so as to be able to invest freely to keep up in a rapidly evolving public telecommunications world , is evident in every pronouncement from Deutsche Bundespost Telecom . |
| 19 | This was a review of the Youth Service , set up by the recently elected Conservative government . |
| 20 | As the demand for cotton goods rose ( partly owing to economic growth caused by advances in agricultural techniques and extended foreign trade ) cotton production shifted from the putting-out system to mills being set up in the rapidly urbanising towns . |
| 21 | The popular feeling is beautifully summed up in a recently published collection of faded Edwardian photographs , entitled The Golden Years , 1903–1913 . |
| 22 | Half an hour later Lee had told Philippa everything , curled up in a newly acquired floral armchair in the living-room . |
| 23 | We motored down to Vyborg Castle Harbour , where we tied up by a newly built tax-free shop in the shadow of the 12th Century castle . |
| 24 | Thus they were , in majority , from professional and administrative families , and grew up within the newly regularized ( reformed ) educational system of ‘ public ’ school and university . |
| 25 | Then he looked up towards the softly defined slopes , high above the village . |
| 26 | Some countries are keener on being cleaner than others and it has been left up to the badly affected states of Europe to set the best example . |
| 27 | Niki comes up on a tightly bunched group of lapped drivers . |
| 28 | Seated at his tiny desk beneath the window , Richard was intent on the word-pictures being held up by the kindly faced tutor . |