Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this weakened commitment may in turn be a by-product of the intensity of the subject commitments that have been built up elsewhere in the school curriculum . |
| 2 | That 's the real reason ye 're holed up here in the mountains … ’ |
| 3 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going up there in the daytime , ’ the Captain said . |
| 5 | She then went into the kitchen and wrote a letter to her mother , which she would have ready for poor Monica Waters , who would certainly be turning up here in the next day or two . |
| 6 | The Pre-Retirement Association ( address on page 155 ) runs day or weekend courses for the employees of large companies ; and as the PRA has a countrywide network of speakers , these can be set up anywhere in the UK in response to demand . |
| 7 | Trotsky 's analysis of the bureaucracy in the Soviet Union will be taken up again in the following chapter when the issue of the ‘ new class , is considered . |
| 8 | But from what he 'd heard it all broke down every year and had to be started up again in the spring , and — ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The H3 building had been put up hastily in the early 1950s to get the scientists out of their first accommodation that had been little more than Nissen huts . |
| 10 | These points are taken up again in the second chapter of Kingman , where it is argued that language ‘ expresses identity , enables co-operation , and confers freedom ’ , and that an understanding of language is vital to children 's intellectual , social , personal and aesthetic development . |
| 11 | Alice , who had several times caught Tom looking admiringly at her while they were coming up there in the tube , and could not forget the way he had held out his hand to her while they sang the duet , wondered if having the room next to his was a good idea . |
| 12 | Many intellectual strands of the Carolingian Renaissance , subsequently dropped , were taken up again in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 13 | Wreaths and flowers were piled up outside in the yard , waiting to be heaped on the coffin . |
| 14 | As a little boy , Adam had sometimes been sent up here in the morning to fetch the letters and the paper , carrying with him a wicker bottle-basket for the milk . |
| 15 | Advertising revenue is holding up well in the Down Recorder says managing director Colin Crichton . |
| 16 | Sentence ( 10 ) tells us of a " weakness " of the " heart " , but not until ( 11 ) , where this matter is taken up again in the expression " the poor child was not robust " , do we learn that it provided a reason for the present interview : it was for this reason ( we surmise ) that the Moreens wished to engage a resident tutor . |
| 17 | A splendid noisy scene was building up nicely in the breakfast room . |
| 18 | The word ‘ rescue ’ was looming up somewhere in the sentence ahead . |
| 19 | The attitude of many Romanian health professionals was summed up recently in the words of one doctor in Constanta who said ‘ Health Education is the only ‘ vaccine ’ we have to fight against HIV . ’ |
| 20 | Because I have it , whether it 's anything to do with my aristocratic ancestors or the fact that I was brought up properly in the old-fashioned way to respect integrity and honesty and decency . |
| 21 | Startled , George turned his head to stare at a woman who was standing up somewhere in the middle of the tight-packed rows of the audience . |
| 22 | What we did n't relish was queuing up again in the gloom of the stairwell to get it . |
| 23 | Mr Robertson 's list fits into this picture : a trial balloon , ostensibly pleasing to greens , which was sent up almost in the hope that it would be quickly shot down . |
| 24 | She was held up briefly in the final when the in-form Sanchez-Vicario swept to a 4–1 lead ( and deservedly so ) and yet Martina , the grass court player supreme , merely drew on her experience , stepped up a gear , kept her nerve and won 5 games in a row to deflate the Spanish challenge . |