Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 2 | On the MS-DOS side of the connectivity business , Rabbit sees itself up against the big names — IBM , Novell and DCA . |
| 3 | Next time someone cuts you up on the fast lane , pity him . |
| 4 | My route takes me up into the Chiltern foothills , and a labyrinth of green lanes . |
| 5 | We were sharing it out between four so we got we we always say a quarter I think I think it 's a good idea the way the Americans say a fourth cos you can it ties it up with the four shared out between four people . |
| 6 | He lines it up on the shiny sideboard . |
| 7 | It was also a shot which sets us up for the glorious conclusion to the match in the Singles the following day . |
| 8 | Paul Levy 's new television series and book looks at the culinary ghosts of Christmas past and brings them up to the present day |
| 9 | MTh students who have no previous knowledge of Hebrew do a special one-year course which brings them up to the level necessary for research in Old Testament Studies . |
| 10 | A modern Roman Catholic authority recounts a story which brings them up to the fourth century — the time of Constantine . |
| 11 | and that brings you up onto the main Belfast road |
| 12 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraint of time ’ … |
| 13 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraints of staff time ’ … |