Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , its subsidiary , Barclays Direct Mortgage Services , was able to come up with the sums in a matter of days . |
| 2 | European sales accounted for 25% of NCD 's revenues last year — the company expects that figure to rise to 40% this year as Europe begins to catch up with the US in its adoption of X-Windows-based technologies . |
| 3 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 4 | As the day wore on they heard everywhere around them the rill of running water , and grass began to poke up through the snow in clumps . |
| 5 | They will play half a game each with new signing Eric Cantona , and one of them will be picked to line up alongside the Frenchman in the Manchester derby tomorrow week — the other will have to kick his heels . |
| 6 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 7 | Time after time I used to land up off the stage in tears . |
| 8 | Unix System Labs and Open Software Foundation presidents Roel Pieper and David Tory are supposed to turn up at the roll-out in New York with signed technology exchange agreements in their hands . |
| 9 | She was having to face up to the confusion in her : that she was married to a man she loved but there was this ‘ Boy-in-the-box ’ . ’ |
| 10 | I have listened in vain to hear anyone , in any political party , who has been courageous enough to face up to the crisis in the social services . |
| 11 | I think we have to face up to the fact in the Labour party that quotas , that positive discrimination are essentially clumsy . |
| 12 | In this case , subsistence requirements could still be met from cotton income , but as there appears to be no clearly demonstrated link between cash crop promotion and improvements in food crops to make up for the shortfall in the cropping area that results from giving over the land to cash crops , the issue of food security must be raised . |
| 13 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 14 | A diet which is bizarre or extreme may bring about weight loss if strictly adhered to but , as the brain draws on its reserves to make up for the deficiency in vital nutrients , the dieter is likely to become edgy , easily upset and to experience difficulty in making decisions . |