Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the party is over members of the bridal party , and guests , may want to go up to the speakers and personally thank them , complimenting them on a good , amusing speech . |
| 2 | Do you want to come up to the window where you can see ? |
| 3 | Control of your performance is achieved by the combination of attitude and power , and it is essential that you should know just what the attitude and power is — in various configurations — for every performance you might need to set up in the aircraft you normally fly . |
| 4 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 5 | It 's not something the average student would expect to come up on the sylabus and Katharine 's still recovering from the shock . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Those who knew him remember an amiable man , but not necessarily the sort of person you 'd expect to end up in the White House . |
| 8 | She does n't fancy turning up to the supermarket in it ! |
| 9 | I 'd like to go up to the house . |
| 10 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 11 | She asked : ‘ Would you like to come up to the top of the house , to my office ? |
| 12 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 13 | I 'd just really like to pick up on the employment argument . |
| 14 | You did n't dare show up without the work completed and damned near perfect . |
| 15 | And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’ |
| 16 | When she got there she found that it was rather full , but being a regular churchgoer she did not mind going up to the front where there were plenty of empty pews . |
| 17 | It is not hard to see how they may become bound up in the sexuality of the growing child . |
| 18 | It is for this reason that we decided not to input existing historical information to our CPIS ( though historical information would begin to build up from the launch date of the system , so providing an accurate historical background to an individual employee record ) . |
| 19 | This was the earliest technology in which power was derived from sources other than animal muscles and the output was so obviously superior that men did not mind putting up with the inconvenience of machines which were uncomfortable or awkward to use . |
| 20 | Whether Parisian or Reims produced the great mounds of town refuse which one can see piled up on the roadside are a dusty grey colour interspersed with flecks of pale blue ; the stench they give out , far outweighing that of the spent piles of marc , can not be missed . |
| 21 | I have probably missed a few esoteric cuisines and no doubt some of the possibilities you 'll see chalked up on the blackboard or down in the menus , but you 've got the general idea by now . |
| 22 | report and the management accounts because there are a number of things which have since , since these minutes er completed and we 'd like to bring up in the report but er I think that we 'd be as well to look at the |
| 23 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 24 | ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’ |
| 25 | He was faced with one setback after another , as we shall see , and most people would have given up along the way . |
| 26 | How much does it take to go up in the balcony , more or less ? |
| 27 | Going back to the agents up in the town , the boatmen to get information about a ship coming in they would have to go up to the town |
| 28 | They would have to go up to the town , yes |
| 29 | Do these all have to go up to the tower ? ’ |
| 30 | They 'll have to go up into the attic . |