Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen .
2 It 's just I like to know where I stand and which bit of me to tense up before the rubber truncheon lands .
3 You do n't want them to grow up in a sterile environment .
4 Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 .
5 I mean you may want to er for example , you know in some ways some of the responses may fit in quite nicely as a point on a scale or something like that , you may have some , you know , be able to in fact I advise you to come up with a fair number of quantitative type questions
6 Playing the exact same solos every night on tour is good too , because the notes are firmly ingrained in your head and that makes it harder for you to mess up in a major way , which is something that could happen if you were winging it every night .
7 The Gib'Sea family of yachts allow you to move up to a larger craft as your requirements progress — you can select from the comprehensive range , 24′ to 52′ , while remaining loyal to a marque you can trust .
8 She has the rare gift of being able to take a joke against herself , and her command of words and easy rapport enable her to come up with a quick response to most situations .
9 He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change .
10 What would 've happened if absolute egalitarianism had been pursued and absolute egalitarianism had worked and there was enough land for everybody to come up to a middle peasant status and you 'd created an absolutely e equal society ?
11 But we want her to grow up with a positive attitude .
12 They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise .
13 In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ .
14 It has become agony for her to live up to the manufactured image of America 's favourite grandmother .
15 BRISTOL City striker Leroy Rosenior accused referee Martin Bodenham of being ‘ a disgrace ’ because the official hassled him to get up after the former West Ham ace was knocked senseless .
16 It is this conviction that led her to team up with the Plenary Foundation for Uruguayan Women to launch a multi-media project on the subject of women , mental health and sexuality .
17 People begin to become aware of this , and their thoughts and feelings gradually enable it to build up into a powerful tribal god .
18 All the leaves that fall into the pond congregate around the loosened wire for me to collect up in a simple once daily netting session .
19 Here is an easy way to remind yourself to follow up on a mailed document .
20 It will not be long before the circumstances in this country — I do not refer to a change of Government at the next election , which I profoundly do not wish to see — allow us to catch up in the two key areas which were subjected to further delay on this occasion .
21 If the whites can only hold their form , this may allow us to sneak up on the blind side and pip them both at the death .
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