Example sentences of "up [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There might be some news this morning since he usually goes up on Sunday-though this week he 's been twice … |
| 2 | which we need to be and once we get into the rhythm I 'm sure it 'll all be a lot easier but you seem to have a calmness about your how you speak which is good and you know I 'm sure I 'll go to pieces but erm yeah it was just , and what I 've picked up on as you say where it 's er how did you come to Friends Provident bum de bum de bum , we 're going through erm a structured erm spiel if you like and then they 're saying well I do n't really wan na give you any you know , recommendations at this moment and erm what we should do there is , is I suppose apack that is n't it ? |
| 3 | First decide whether you wish to make a portrait or landscape design , and check that the card will stand up properly if you are opting for the latter shape . |
| 4 | She spoke up properly when questioned . |
| 5 | The tremolo would probably need setting up properly because it feels stiff and uneven in use . |
| 6 | ‘ The whole insurance industry is putting its household rates up tremendously because of subsidence . |
| 7 | The heavy clouds were edging nearer , and Jessamy glanced up uneasily as they got out of the car . |
| 8 | It is , on the whole , more likely that they are responding to the cumulative temperature building up slowly until a threshold has been passed , and they are away . |
| 9 | Hydraulic pressure built up slowly until the door wheezed open . |
| 10 | Well a cos then you can pick them up altogether if , are you with me , if you 're doing the rounds for your friends cos some of them 'll be on there and some 'll be Pick them up from the front , it 's just that some of the stuff will be at the front and some of it wo n't . |
| 11 | While one may whizz straight through the enemy , and another might stall in front of your Mob , the other one is bound to end up somewhere where you want him . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , there you go , Jamie , ’ I said pathetically , drying up metaphorically as well as literally . |
| 13 | Now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle |
| 14 | House and land prices tend on the whole to go up rather than down . |
| 15 | Compared with the stereotyped western firm , they operate from the bottom up rather than the top down . |
| 16 | The 15th was an obvious birdie hole but Wadkins thinned his drive and , after much deliberation , decided to lay up rather than go for the carry . |
| 17 | I prefer to go up rather than down , do n't you ? ’ |
| 18 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 19 | Sometimes , though , we can be so afraid of what other people think that we shut up rather than speak up . |
| 20 | In other words , my guard was now so strong that I would wake myself up rather than allow myself to eat , even in a dream . |
| 21 | However , if we look up rather than down the stratification hierarchy and see serious crimes being committed by the people who are respectable , well-educated , wealthy , and socially privileged then the imagery of pathology seems harder to accept . |
| 22 | In short a process of levelling up rather than the levelling down anticipated by many critics of comprehensive provision . |
| 23 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 24 | He liked a steady business , moving up rather than down , operating in not too competitive a climate , and able as a result to maintain a paternal relationship with the workpeople . |
| 25 | This in turn leads to their ‘ going by the book ’ , their sense of power stemming from their ability to hold things up rather than get things done . |
| 26 | Standards are likely to be levelled up rather than down . |
| 27 | They come in and follow it up rather than preventing it . |
| 28 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 29 | So , another possible explanation is that in a polygynous society , the parallel cousins will be much more likely to grow up together than the cross-cousins . |
| 30 | They both looked up together as the door opened and Madeleine came hesitantly forward . |