Example sentences of "[verb] up [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly the only person ever to have succeeded in upstaging Margaret Thatcher in a photo-opportunity , Katharine lined up to shake the Prime Minister 's hand wearing a T-shirt declaring ‘ 58 per cent Do n't Want Pershing ’ at a Downing Street reception in 1984 . |
| 2 | Here the fields are small … and the hedges often tall and deep , leafy with trees of all ages as hedgerow saplings grow up to replace the dying giants … . |
| 3 | By now the head has come up to witness the miserable result . |
| 4 | It would reveal not only the acceptance of cruelty , suffering , destruction , fighting , massacring , torturing and other terrible acts that humanity as a whole instinctively condemns , but also the corruption , superstition , misrepresentation of the truth and love of pomp and elaborate ritual that has been allowed to flourish within the powerful hierarchies built up to control the various churches within the religions . |
| 5 | One morning they woke up to find the Blessed Margaret in charge whilst their own leaders resembled very recently decapitated chickens . |
| 6 | On the other hand , practices whose procedures are well organised and geared up to meet the new deadline will surely benefit from the new regime . |
| 7 | ‘ We had outgrown our present building when the opportunity came up to purchase the adjoining freehold . |
| 8 | A hand came up to rumple the short hair at the back of his head , a gesture that betrayed his momentary awkwardness . |
| 9 | If success follows at the polls , legislative programmes then have to be drawn up to implement the incoming Government 's undertakings . |
| 10 | Thousands turned up to watch the retired steeplechaser go through his paces in the main ring , and Dessie even found time to make a new little friend . |
| 11 | In spite of lowering clouds and apocalyptic forecasts , plenty of hardy souls turned up to sample the culinary offerings of Brecknock 's answer tot he Roux Brothers , and were rewarded with a pleasant , rain free evening , and a meal that reached even dizzier heights than last year — the proportion of charcoal to edible meat having been somewhat reduced . |
| 12 | We all turned up to see the mighty Linfield toss Bangor aside and we go and spoil the party . |
| 13 | He was a tall , heavily built man , and I had to look up to see the bearded face . |
| 14 | The National Museum of Wales , for example , saw an even more dramatic fall in visitors after introducing entrance fees in December 1988 : 68,000 paid up to visit the main Cardiff branch of the museum in 1989 , where 525,000 and 354,000 visitors were admitted free in 1987 and 1988 , respectively . |
| 15 | Switch to wavy bullets and go left , get over the blocker and jump up to shoot the fat creature . |
| 16 | And then , before that , if you if you was to make the mealy puddings the it that always had to be cut into bits and emptied and washed well in cold water , and with salt and that , and that was They would done that for three days before they were then filled up to make the mealy puddings . |
| 17 | Ross had no right to automatically expect her to suddenly become an efficient home-maker , she grumbled to herself as she got up to clear the dirty plates from the small dining-room table . |
| 18 | Yes , what it was , early in the season when I was playing left back erm I had to stay back , but recently because I 'm playing centre half , I get up to get the set pieces , so it 's nice for me as well . |
| 19 | ‘ On the Friday night I had stayed up to watch the late film , and at 3.30am I decided that it was n't worthwhile going to bed as I had to be at John 's house at seven o'clock . |
| 20 | But the Royal Navy , which was geared up to fight the Soviet Union rather than a country operating Western weapons , had not reprogrammed the computer to register Exocet as being hostile . |
| 21 | Dad goes off to the gin shop , gallant daughter stays up to put the old soak to bed . ’ |
| 22 | The Truman Administration had already been forced by Congress to end Lend-Lease ; many of the joint boards set up to co-ordinate the Anglo-American war effort were summarily dismantled ; and , although the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development Trust survived , the flow of technical information , on which Britain was depending to set up her own atomic establishments , began to dry up . |
| 23 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 24 | Who knows why certain people are called up to join the Prime Mover ? |
| 25 | His misfortune turns out to be a bonus for Portsmouth 's Alan been called up to augment the 17-strong travelling party . |
| 26 | Are you staying up to see the New Year in ? ’ |
| 27 | Belinda 's head flew up to meet the blue onslaught of Tom Russell 's frowning gaze . |
| 28 | The offshore championship is held over 10 rounds off the coast of Britain … the races can be anything up to a 100 miles … today its the Eastbourne Grand Prix … there 's not a deckchair to be had on the pier … its standing room only as thousands roll up to watch the big boats bouncing their way through the water … |
| 29 | Instead of joining up to defeat the many-headed monster I mentioned earlier , today 's record collectors sometimes seem to be their own worst enemies . |
| 30 | The lead group approaching Old Windsor were Horak , Rasmussen , Selvick and Paul Wells plus 3 K2s , Blyth being well back in the next group of four although he pulled up to join the leading group at the lock portage . |