Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I might catch up on a few chores instead . |
| 2 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 3 | In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators . |
| 4 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 5 | The old argument that software ca n't keep up with the rapid advances in hardware performance simply is n't true , he says . |
| 6 | I can not sum up in a few sentences what will be the substance itself of my book . |
| 7 | At any gathering of the faithful , he will stay up until the small hours debating ideas with all and sundry , pulling people with different backgrounds into the same conversation . |
| 8 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 9 | It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’ |
| 10 | We do actually cover up to a thousand pounds parts and labour with a wide range of cover across the board . |
| 11 | Feminist psychology tries to get round women 's occasional lower scores on such traits by suggesting how , with the right experience and environment , they could measure up to the male-oriented norms . |
| 12 | A new building could also face up to the logistical problems presented by so much contemporary art : vast canvases , dispersed installations , massive weights ( the Serra sculptures currently on show required the floor to be shored up ) , and ultra-sensitive materials . |
| 13 | They will meet up with the commanding officers of some of the major units on the ground to brief them on the results of their reconnaissance . |
| 14 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |
| 15 | Although the driver ant colony is an " animal " weighing in excess of 20 kg and possessing on the order of 20 million mouths and stings and is surely the most formidable creation of the insect world , it still does not match up to the lurid stories told about it . |
| 16 | Halsey , Heath and Ridge have argued persuasively that the post-war education system 's achievements never did match up to the meritocratic ideals of its creators . |
| 17 | Do not stand up for a few moments . |
| 18 | 1 am , Bath : As in Richmond and Barnes , there are few Labour voters left in Bath for the Liberal Democrats to squeeze and Chris Patten , clinging to a majority of only 1,412 , hopes Labour 's vote will go up at the Liberal Democrats ' expense . |
| 19 | And when , as often happened , the screen began to yellow and darken , the cry would go up from the front rows : ‘ Purra nother bob in Len ! ’ |
| 20 | But I could go up in a few weeks . |
| 21 | On the other it might end up with the negative attitudes about dementia and care for dementia sufferers attaching to the segregated units . " |
| 22 | He adds : ‘ People who get carried away when describing their wares can end up in the small claims court . ’ |
| 23 | The only thing that stopped them cutting us to ribbons was that one of my friends had the gift of the gab and gradually defused the situation by talking good sense in a calm reasonable way ; finally he pointed out that we would all end up in the local police cells if anything happened anyway . |
| 24 | ‘ I shall see to it that she does n't end up in the wrong hands . |
| 25 | More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . ) |
| 26 | BE good to your secretary or you could end up in the worst seats on business flights and be booked into lousy hotels . |
| 27 | Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles . |
| 28 | I can soon pick up on the current contacts , get a good team together . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , a grateful girl like me can put up with a few bruises , ’ said Dolly , sheet and blankets up to her chin . |
| 30 | So why do they put up with the real foreigners ? |