Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a girl at work who said she loved the rain — she would dress up in a mac and goloshes and tramp around in the rain just for pleasure . |
| 2 | The danger of allowing opting out would be that the NHS would finish up as a rump and would provide very much a second class service . |
| 3 | So you do n't finish up with a battery that as soon as you 've used it for about a minute , that 's it ca n't get any more |
| 4 | But give him his due , he does not give up for a scratch or two , and not even a dagger could hold him off for ever . ’ |
| 5 | These were a valuable indicator , as they would only show up from a distance if you were ‘ on the line ’ . |
| 6 | This may not seem important , but small irritations can build up in a Home and become real barriers to good communication . |
| 7 | But experience can often make up for a yard or two of pace . |
| 8 | Slowly she discovered tricks of the trade such as weighting her hems so that they did n't blow up in a breeze and she gradually acquired a coterie of designers , including Catherine Walker , David Sassoon and Victor Edelstein , whom she now relies upon . |
| 9 | By such primitive methods , the volume of gas necessary to carry one or two people aloft , could take up to a day and a half to produce . |
| 10 | Results will be given as quickly as possible , but some experts fear they could take up to a month if demand is high . |
| 11 | In fact , it may take up to a week before your bank actually receives the money . |
| 12 | However , it could take up to a week before he can open his eyes . |
| 13 | She says younger users often expect the drug to work immediately although its affects can take up to an hour so they take more , which increases the risks . |
| 14 | When she sings something like ‘ Nothing Left At All ’ you can almost feel the sky closing in tight above you , getting so close that you could reach up with a broomstick and touch it . |
| 15 | You 'd s er a lot of them you 'd sta you 'd stand up against a wall and then they say , Goaler throw a ball . |
| 16 | No one would ever go up to a man and comment on what 's in his trousers ! |
| 17 | And it can be a hazardous time for the male — usually much smaller than the female — as he could end up as a meal if he 's not careful . |
| 18 | HUNDREDS of swimming pools are so dirty you could end up with a rash or tummy bug , health chiefs cautioned yesterday . |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , you introduce your ferrets via holes from the burrow system that show , say , 10 yards ( 9 metres ) from the tree trunk you simply drive your rabbits towards the major roots , not away from them , and can end up with a problem where thick roots prevent digging down to retrieve your ferrets . |
| 20 | Yeah , at least we 'll end up with a scheme that 's up-to-date and accurate |
| 21 | He points out that this safety exercise is about assessing risk where one set of circumstances might be alright within that particular discipline , but when you actually put that along the side of a similar sort of marginal safe systems , that are in other disciplines , er th that you might end up with a conflict or or or highlighting some form of erm er permutation , that could end up in in what satisfies all the codes and regulations and blue books and whatever , but at the end of can do this and nobody else can . |
| 22 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 23 | If this guitar were mine , I 'd be tempted to experiment , probably starting with Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro IIs , and then maybe I 'd end up with a guitar that was a perfect cross between the JD and the Signature . |
| 24 | If you follow the instructions precisely , you will end up with a diet that is really tailored to suit your own body . |
| 25 | If you do n't do a caesar when it 's needed , then of course you can end up with a baby that 's damaged . |
| 26 | They feel the fighting is justified because their religion is something worth supporting and fighting for because if everybody just accepted what the other said then no-one would have the right to choose and end up with a dictatorship where one person is saying what they believe in and nobody fights back so everybody would end up having to agree . |
| 27 | Although it will take a while to complete a fully working graphics adventure game , the creation is very enjoyable and , who knows , you may even end up with a game that can be sold through the shareware concept . |
| 28 | I would probably end up in a bed and breakfast hostel , in which it would be impossible to write . ’ |
| 29 | Old lag Charlie Cowden , who has a serious heart condition , feared 73-year-old Rosie Hiscock would end up in a home if he died . |
| 30 | Says one critic : ‘ You can not advertise shame , ’ says one critic , ‘ and you can not walk up to a prostitute and say ‘ Hey , you , walk off the streets and join other prostitutes in farming ’ . ’ |