Example sentences of "up [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DAD took his family out shopping — and ended up catching a jewel thief . |
| 2 | She 'll always look up Got a Pritt stick ? |
| 3 | The loudspeaker radio system he set up became a great success and became a model for others throughout Argentina . |
| 4 | Where mother nature has been meaner in her packaged quantity , with plums for instance , one unit does not have an inbuilt stop mechanism , so we often end up eating a good deal more than we would with a larger fruit . |
| 5 | You 're standing up , I mean that 's not good for you standing up eating a meal you know . |
| 6 | It is very easy to end up wasting a lot of time and money preparing reports that you do n't read and no one else does either . |
| 7 | When John hung a cupboard on small metal brackets , she insisted on climbing up to paint a trompe l'oeil over the brackets as camouflage . |
| 8 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |
| 9 | Minnie had written to her about how terrible it had been , how Captain Cook had brought his wife up to see a specialist who had examined her and said at once there was nothing to be done , there was no operation possible , and he must take his wife home to die . |
| 10 | Occupied in their garden on a June day in 1797 , they looked up to see a figure standing in a gateway at the top of the gentle slope one hundred yards from the mansion . |
| 11 | ‘ Wan na dance ? ’ a voice enquired and Sally looked up to see a boy in a velvet-collared jacket , drainpipes and crepe-soled shoes standing in front of her , a lick of greasy hair falling across a face shiny with perspiration . |
| 12 | She glanced up to see a familiar trim figure strolling languidly out of the entrance to the Members ' Enclosure . |
| 13 | He was n't brought up to see a woman like that and therefore it was an unholy , appalling state of affairs . |
| 14 | Creeping to the windows of the married quarters in which she was still living since her husband 's sudden and secret posting , she looked up to see a mass of twinkling red , green and white lights , as wave after wave of aircraft passed overhead with unceasing regularity , making the earth shake beneath them as they roared southwards to the English Channel . |
| 15 | As he clambered over the rocks , parting the scrub and the brambles to peer into crevices , he heard a droning throb overhead and looked up to see a helicopter . |
| 16 | The voice startled him and he spun round , looking up to see a young woman standing there . |
| 17 | They both looked up to see a short , wiry little man who had been table-hopping beaming down at them . |
| 18 | Suddenly there was this tremendous roar , and we looked up to see a mass of snow and rocks rolling down a gully . |
| 19 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 20 | But you go to the middle of nowhere and Nicky would look up to see a black cloud on the horizon and ask what it was . |
| 21 | Suddenly the dogs scampered off , and she saw them jumping up to greet a dark figure . |
| 22 | He had long deplored the grand opera house tradition of stars turning up to slot into ready-rehearsed productions , and recalled the awful theatre tale of a famous Lear/Hamlet/Othello turning up to greet a cast of strangers , saying ‘ Whatever you do , do n't get in my way … ‘ |
| 23 | Many disciplines can be called up to impart a critical perspective , and questions and strategies can be mounted which have use across a wide variety of courses of study . |
| 24 | They are processes which , once started , end up producing a particular outcome at a later point in time . |
| 25 | As the sphere becomes superconducting , surface currents are set up producing a magnetic flux opposite to that already existing inside the material . |
| 26 | ‘ We ended up producing a paint customised for the job , ’ said , sales manager for defence and industrial coatings . |
| 27 | It 's important to get the appropriate medical advice to rule out any underlying disorder , of course , but thereafter , most parents end up drawing a blank . |
| 28 | Nearly 700 BP employees involved in the KG Ethylene Project turned up to enjoy a delicious grill and tasty menu specially prepared for the event . |
| 29 | What does my hon. Friend think of the actions of Derbyshire county council , which refused one low-cost tender because it came in the wrong coloured envelope and ended up accepting a higher tender from its own work force at an enormous extra cost to charge payers ? |
| 30 | In the spring a weekly journal , Bezbozhnik , was set up to conduct a popular anti-religious campaign . |