Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 2 | This literally causes water to pile up in the western Pacific : a veritable hill of water . |
| 3 | The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit . |
| 4 | To the Edinburgh , at least the Scotland passengers , to Carstairs to connect up to the main Glasgow Central to Liverpool , Birmingham and there were all these places . |
| 5 | My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt . |