Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shops and showrooms themselves are worth visiting if you want to catch up on some of the latest modern furniture , lighting and fabric design . |
| 2 | I 'm going to wrap up in one of the linens . |
| 3 | The standard of NHS accommodation available to trained staff is variable , and even if you are happy to put up with this in the short term , in the longer term it may have adverse effects on your personal life or hopes of a future career . |
| 4 | Were you multiplying two by three , or were you multiplying something else by three to finish up with sixteen to the three quarters ? |
| 5 | Hundreds of vintage tractor enthusiasts are expected to turn up to one of the biggest auctions of its kind . |
| 6 | Haunted by a fear that I have forgotten to stock up on one of the essentials of life but can not think what it is . |
| 7 | Plans to airlift up to half of the wild Javan rhinos to new reserves have proved controversial . |
| 8 | ‘ Chefs do n't want to get up at six in the morning to go to Docklands , ’ Mr Moran says . |
| 9 | ‘ The weather was really hot and we had to get up at six in the morning to do the filming , ’ he recalls . |
| 10 | The 21-year-old from Darlington says : ‘ I used to get up at five in the morning and go cleaning at Presto , then I 'd work in a chippy from eleven to two and then later I 'd do some child-minding . |
| 11 | It is vital to face up to some of the problems inherent in the situation and to be as honest as possible about all the relationships involved . |
| 12 | In a similar way , his When the wind blows enables the reader to face up to some of the appalling possibilities and realities of nuclear warfare in a way that is just bearable . |
| 13 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 14 | The unique feature is that social workers were given authority to spend up to two-thirds of the cost of a place in residential care in order to support an old person in his or her own home , who would otherwise require such a place . |
| 15 | The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has plans to move up to 26 of the rhinos to two new reserves in Indonesia , and to the USA , where a captive breeding programme will be undertaken . |
| 16 | We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 . |
| 17 | However , attempts have been made to make up for this by the development of other devices such as question time , ten-minute rule bills and the practice of asking wide-ranging questions each Thursday when the business for the following week is announced . |
| 18 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |