Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let them do what they like as long as you 're not well they do , they kill you , kill you stone dead er them French vaches Cos , see you go in down here you see , where you 've got ta jump up to get out got ta jump up off the floor , you got ta jump up about four feet to get out see , they were n't just like |
| 2 | BIRTHDAY boy Fred Proctor was in seventh heaven after notching up yet another election success . |
| 3 | Strong enough to whip a 1 50-kilogramme seal out of the water with one paw , able to swim many kilometres in freezing seas and quite capable of climbing up almost vertical ice-faces , they represent one of nature 's supreme examples of adaptation to an inhospitable environment . |
| 4 | However , the practical problems of matching up hugely varying exams , at different levels , in a vast variety of subjects , while also paying due respect to the inevitable sectional interests and sensitivities , seem almost insurmountable . |
| 5 | In an industrialized urban area the job , especially in the northern authority , is essentially one of cleaning up heavily polluted rivers , but in rural areas , where there are fewer sources of pollution , field officers are more concerned with preserving high standards of water quality . |
| 6 | The CBI , and large companies in particular , refused to use the new powers of the Industrial Relations Act for fear of stirring up even more trouble , leaving them for smaller maverick employers to exploit , and discredit , in highly contentious situations . |
| 7 | Bukharin specifically warned against tying up too many resources in long-term capital projects , and argued for a balanced approach which would actually yield a greater product : |
| 8 | Whilst regarding as correct the shift of the centre of gravity to the production of the means of production , we must at the same time remember the danger involved in tying up too much state capital in major construction work , which can not be realised on the market for many years . |
| 9 | Our unconscious acknowledgement of this at the time lay in taking up as little space as possible , not being a nuisance . |
| 10 | Telepoint phones can make only outgoing calls but Hutchison feels its £50m investment in setting up over 12,000 base stations to transmit calls will overcome earlier problems . |
| 11 | THERE is a face that pops up on TV screens that is the most instantly dislikeable I 've ever seen on the tube ; a medium that sets Olympic standards in throwing up instantly dislikeable mugs . |
| 12 | With my husband 's increasing involvement with homoeopathy , I viewed with interest the impressive , but off-putting , tomes which contained the gems of homoeopathic philosophy and materia medica , but had no enthusiasm for taking up yet another area of study , and particularly not one as arduous as homoeopathy . |
| 13 | Cheltenham MP Nigel Jones said Gloucestershire had been underfunded compared to others , but he failed in his bid and earned a rebuke for taking up too much time . |
| 14 | By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . |
| 15 | I am wondering how I can decorate the tank without using up too much space . |
| 16 | By now I 'd read about how exhausting flight could be and how birds of prey used warm air currents — known as thermals — to lift them without using up too much energy , and here they were , doing just that over the rocks by Tintagel Castle . |
| 17 | They knew he spent his weekends at the flying club , but had n't got around to totting up how many hours of blind flying instruction in a twin-engined Cessna he was buying , nor how much each such hour cost . |
| 18 | He took to picking up pretty young girls just so that he could complain about her . |
| 19 | In general , in the authority 's industrialized areas the emphasis in pollution control is on cleaning up heavily polluted rivers . |
| 20 | As you approach your selected wave concentrate on getting up as much speed as possible and unhook from your harness . |
| 21 | pathetic , it 's gon na freeze up again this afternoon down at Bournemouth , gon na have fish off the pier , go for some bees , but I could n't be bothered but there was nothing , it was too damn cold , it must of been minus five with the wind chill factor |
| 22 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 23 | Any advantage bestowed on KGDC by its peculiar structure remains a mystery — but one possibility is that a molecule with 24 separate binding sites will be much more effective at picking up very small quantities of substrate . |
| 24 | At the same time , for quite different reasons , animals have evolved sensory systems that are particularly good at picking up biologically important features of the environment . |
| 25 | Great for livening up otherwise boring presentations . |
| 26 | The third option will require the TECs to boost their incomes by gobbling up as many government programmes and grants as they can find . |