Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 2 | One way or another they can expect to meet up with the majority of the players who will represent Canada at the ‘ 95 World Cup . |
| 3 | ’ I 'm a loner who likes to curl up on a sofa with a good book , ’ she says . |
| 4 | She gripped the edge of the window sill , seemed to strain up on the window across the small of her back . |
| 5 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 6 | Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon . |
| 7 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 8 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 9 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 10 | Train passengers used to stand up as a mark of respect when they passed Mother Volga , but not any more . |
| 11 | The change involved the production of a protective ‘ skin ’ to ensure that water loss to the atmosphere was not excessive , and the stems had to acquire sufficient rigidity to stand up without the support of surrounding water , but also the cellular structure had to allow the passage of nutrients to the growing shoots ( ultimately , a vascular system ) . |
| 12 | She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves . |
| 13 | This crying , this wailing , this mass of thick air gathered from thousand upon thousand square miles of nothingness , scooped up , pushed and banked against every object which has the temerity to stand up from the surface of the earth ; this was weird , oppressive , invasive . |
| 14 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
| 15 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |
| 16 | He 'd come on strong towards the end of his round to pull up within a shot of us . |
| 17 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
| 18 | I really support the idea of trying to come up with a plan of action because quite frankly I find that London and England is just so full of talk shops . |
| 19 | Now we will be able to come up with a plan in response to the many issues raised . |
| 20 | It 's a contract which the community is well aware of as the brewer has invited local people to come up with a name for the new pub . |
| 21 | Actually , the BMC does n't know all the details yet and it 's highly probable you 'll have to come up with a bit of cash yourself , but if you 're keen call Roger Payne on . |
| 22 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 23 | Jane Asher has put her creative talents to work to come up with a range of designer cakes that are exclusive to Sainsbury . |
| 24 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 25 | But it would take a pretty exceptional executioner to come up with a vegetable on the spur of the moment . |
| 26 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 27 | His brief was to come up with a recipe for a high-growth food with cost ( within reason ) no object . |
| 28 | Working within an embassy office or the regional office of a multilateral bank it is not difficult for donors ' staff to come up with a list of potential projects which can be presented to a recipient country 's ministry of finance for discussion . |
| 29 | One scratchcard in six is expected to come up with a prize between £1 and £100 . |
| 30 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |