Example sentences of "up [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ai n't likely to pick up Prince Charming in a bar . ’ |
| 2 | She ‘ just misses ’ trains , turns up hours late for dates , makes sure we 're the last to arrive at parties , dawdles getting ready to go out , then tears around hysterically , taking her irritation with herself out on me . |
| 3 | Get up thae bliddy sterrs . |
| 4 | We have er two marketing execs three in fact that sign up schools medical practices and we have four I think to sign up estate agents . |
| 5 | We are here mainly for the hard work that clients can neither do nor wish to do themselves , for example ; pulling out hedges which contain years of accumulated dust ( bad for the sinuses ) , grubbing out tree stumps , digging heavy clay soil ( a nightmare for the lower lumbar region ) , pruning overgrown trees , cutting up brushwood prior to removal . |
| 6 | Dickens Data Systems Inc has picked up Data General Corp 's Clariion storage system to distribute for the IBM RS/6000 servers it resells to US VARs . |
| 7 | Now the feat hierarchical feature analysis that we 've done so far was predominantly a bottom up data driven process . |
| 8 | At first the belts slip round the flat pulleys — they 're meant to — but as soon as I squirt the gum they grab and the shafts pick up speed real fast , and the spokes on the pulleys blur and disappear . |
| 9 | COVER UP DESIGNS LTD |
| 10 | I started up WordStar full of apprehension , thinking I 'd never get to grips with all those cryptic keystroke shortcuts . |
| 11 | For such a straightforward concept , the game manages to turn up surprises galore by ensuring that different approaches are adopted for each particular screen . |
| 12 | In view of the clear directive contained in the document ’ Caring for People ’ that the Government expect health providers to set up NHS nursing homes , will the Secretary of State give a commitment that there will be health providers in Wales , and that trusts will establish such homes ? |
| 13 | 1961 Goes underground to organize mass stay-away of May 1961 and to help set up ANC armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe |
| 14 | According to documents leaked to a newspaper , the French Secret Service has been monitoring the Soka Gakkai Buddhist group which has set up bases near to nuclear reactors and research centres . |
| 15 | 14 : A-Team back up hill ready for longer term push . |
| 16 | Sywell-based Sloane Helicopters Ltd , which regularly clocks up record annual sales of the Robinson R22 helicopter , has been appointed UK distributor for the forthcoming four-seat R44 . |
| 17 | It built a place in the middle of the world and sent up towers full of clouds . |
| 18 | One will stalk along the margin of a lake , picking up insects dead or alive , or small pieces of bread or biscuit dropped by visitors . |
| 19 | Okay , minimum premiums , much lower , as we said , than the other two plans , because it 's not building up cash residual values . |
| 20 | Walnut Creek , California-based personnel and payroll software specialist PeopleSoft Inc has set up PeopleSoft International appointing Richard Hess as managing director , international operations ; he was general manager , international at Objectivity Inc , before that chief executive of Oracle East Asia . |
| 21 | The primary methods of co-operation and co-ordination are setting up committees concerned with various aspects of library instruction , organization of conferences , courses , seminars etc , and the publication of newsletters and similar channels of co-operation . |
| 22 | Of course he could look up Robin Tatian but where , really , would that get him ? |
| 23 | Keenly priced UK-built Vauxhall Frontera is set to shake up UK recreational market from this November |
| 24 | She smiled at this and said if I wanted a change I could knit up navy blue wool for the Royal Navy , which I did . |
| 25 | Leaves make up 15% wet weight of the diet of the omnivorous white-throated capuchin monkey ( Cebus capucinus ) on Barro Colorado Island . |
| 26 | Borg 's wife serves up Pounds ¼m-a-year divorce ace |
| 27 | Even at night , she supposed , they had tasks to perform — making up the fire , taking up water ready for the morning ablutions … |
| 28 | I 'm going up stairs okay ? |
| 29 | After being hauled out by rescuers using a rope , he was helped up 300-ft high steps and a mile-and-a-half across moorland before changing back at his car and travelling back to Middlesbrough where the extent of his injuries were discovered . |
| 30 | Langbaurgh Council 's refuse collection service will pick up sacks full of plastic carriers and take them to the British Visqueen factory in Stockton for recycling . |