Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SEC 's New York office is making informal inquiries into several instances when a share price moved up ahead of a favourable announcement about the restructuring of the company 's debt . |
| 2 | Its dominance over other media built up steadily through the 1980s ( Table 6.13 ) . |
| 3 | There followed a period of comparative quiet , while the water built up again behind the top step and those beneath . |
| 4 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 5 | Two , to see whether we can knock down the price and whether we can get him to come up here in the same way as Doctor does and do it that way to reduce the costs . |
| 6 | I mean they 're probably booked up now for the next three or four years anyway |
| 7 | IT ALL adds up now to a fifth successive Premier Division championship for Rangers , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 8 | Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones . |
| 9 | Randy and Merlin Sherwood 's beautiful mother adjusted her mascara in the driving mirror and eyed Rupert Campbell-Black who 'd just rolled up alone in a dark green Ferrari to watch his daughter , Tabitha , play in the first final for the under-fourteens . |
| 10 | Virginia pushed agitated hands through her hair , forgetting it was caught up neatly in a high top-knot . |
| 11 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 12 | They 'd all grown up together on the same corpy estate , been to the same sink school , gone out with the same dreary lads . |
| 13 | The adult males have grown up together in a similar pride , left before maturity , and stayed together . |
| 14 | Grown up enough for a proper kiss , I wonder ? ’ |
| 15 | Deuterium nuclei ( deuterons ) have a spin that will , in a magnetic field , line up either with the magnetic field or perpendicular to it . |
| 16 | But perhaps a more interesting effect — and the one that might offer scientists the first chance to test Kulsrud 's work experimentally — is the ability to suppress D-D reactions by polarising the deuterons so that all the ions line up parallel to the magnetic field . |
| 17 | ‘ I put £17 of fuel in , went to Windsor and back , used the car every day , and filled up again after the New Year . |
| 18 | NORWICH hero John Polston woke up today with a king-sized headache and feeling exhausted after an epic 24 hours . |
| 19 | Similarly , the database can be built up piecemeal without an organissed data analysis exercise . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , applications in many organisations have been built up piecemeal in an unorganised , often chaotic way . |
| 21 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 22 | Progressive assessment relates directly to the principle of credit accumulation in that passes in individual modules are built up progressively towards a final award . |
| 23 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 24 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 25 | These differences show up clearly with the longer-term policies associated with mortgages . |
| 26 | I prefer crimson or deep orange rather than pillar-box red , as these colours show up better with a dark contrast colour and look more realistic . |
| 27 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 28 | ‘ Why have you turned up again like the bad penny ? ’ |
| 29 | Was the vicious rumour that he had turned up late after a liquid lunch and did n't know what he was voting for true ? |
| 30 | There has been , I think has put it adequately very well , that there are members who 've turned up really for no real reason but to speak on a minor item which members of their group could 've taken on their behalf , and therefore erm , I , I do support that we need to look at that particular issue , and I think that can be dealt with under the present chairs arrange arrangement without having to have permanent chairs . |