Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] up [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless Murphy should end up comfortably a millionaire once the earn-out is complete next year .
2 Since both individuals consume whatever quantity of the good is produced , we must add up vertically the price each is prepared to pay for the last unit .
3 ‘ When he first told me , I tried to understand him and agreed he could dress up once a week at home .
4 I 'd go up there every night and see the same films over and again .
5 He could come up here every day !
6 Sergeant and I used to go up there every night .
7 I was I used to come up here every week anyway , cos I had friends here but erm I never er I did n't take pictures for months and months and months .
8 so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts .
9 Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history .
10 to the staff then that they volunteer one night and we do thir , and wa , you would come up once a week every thirty two weeks to man the library one night a week
11 Members of the senior management within the health service have The Northern Echo that they believe the merger question will crop up once the purchasing consortiums have begun operating .
12 Even when doubled the Funds will take up only a quarter of the EC budget and will approximately amount to something in the order of 4 per cent of the total estimated aggregate gains from completing the SEM .
13 It will go up quite a lot .
14 A right pain in the neck , in short , but in the end he will buy a copy — full retail price , no questions asked — and ( because collectors are generally tidy chaps ) will stack up neatly the rejects so that they may be snapped up by the mere purchaser or — even more gratifyingly undiscerning — the impulse buyer .
15 The scheme is supported by the Workout Charity which will turn up once a week to helpwith applications and enquiries .
16 Here , the Metropolitan police are planning to feed all genetic records of known sex offenders into their computers next year — this will speed up considerably the time in which they can track down attackers .
17 If I can pick up specifically the point that er , Mrs was making this , this morning , under the children looked after heading , under strategy , it 's priority objective one and strategy two , you 'll see in there that it is the intention to put in some two hundred thousand pounds for er , for community er , based resources .
18 And , Sarella , I suggest you go without making any waves — I can get up quite a case against you .
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