Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As er as you can imagine , it 's a very difficult task , nobody wants to go up in the region , it has malaria , it 's dangerous , it 's it Transportation is difficult . |
| 2 | Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon . |
| 3 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 4 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 5 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 6 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 7 | He has to come up with a strategy which will instill new financial disciplines in Polish industry and satisfy the demands of the workers/public en masse . |
| 8 | It becomes the subject of countless official reports , inquiries and learned articles , and it starts to crop up in the soaps . |
| 9 | The example of the police radios shows the relative permanence of being allocated a piece of spectrum — radios and other broadcasting equipment , whether for entertainment or communication , are designed to sort out what it wants to pick up from the rest of the signal . |
| 10 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 11 | She says that the duckling loves to snuggle up in the dogs fur . |
| 12 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 13 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 14 | What , the two er eldest have to wash up and she has to sweep up round the table . |
| 15 | Cascade is not so demure , proffering itself to anyone who cares to look up from the road — an many do . |
| 16 | When a cut has to extend up to a wall , for example , the sole plate can be moved back , out of the way , by turning just one central screw . |
| 17 | They buy a cot , a changing table , a convertible buggy/pram , a baby seat to go in the back of the car , a changing mat , a night-light , a sterilizing unit , five large bottles plus teats , five small bottles plus teats , five baby-grows ( newborn size ) , three undervests ( newborn size ) , three pairs of socks ( newborn size ) , a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery , a van-sized packet of newborn nappies , a tub of cream to put on the kid 's bottom , a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls , a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light , a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk . |
| 18 | Or , for that matter , what good is it to the teacher who has to keep up with the ins and outs of teaching reading and who needs to diagnose the difficulties of Jason , Amil and Della and then advise a colleague on how to help them ? |
| 19 | When safely across the river , remembering of course to unclip your lifeline , take off the safety helmet , undo your life jacket , and slip out of the survival suit , the route passes beneath the splendid waterfall and starts to climb up to An Gearanach , not marked by name on the ordnance survey map . |
| 20 | I 'm the one who makes sure food gets in one end and I 'm the one who has to clear up at the other . |
| 21 | Her face tilts to look up into the sky where there ought to be stars . |
| 22 | Mariana herself could also be seen as asleep because she refuses to wake up to the probability that her lover will not return . |
| 23 | He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer . |
| 24 | In another move which shows that the board intends to live up to the word ‘ control ’ in its title , it sent a message to the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road , where Frank Bruno is playing in Aladdin , to the effect that Bruno will not be able to rub his genie 's lamp and in a puff of smoke reappear in a world title fight . |
| 25 | For instance , a clay mineral with the lovely name montmorillonite tends to break up in the presence of small amounts of an organic molecule with the less-lovely name carboxymethyl cellulose . |
| 26 | On the M40 , our police driver struggles to keep up with a car in the outside lane . |
| 27 | His body always seems to bulk up after a day like this : he can see increased sponginess around his waist and chest . |
| 28 | The water seems to dry up on the road without getting too far . |
| 29 | So , if a woman tries to keep up with a man , drink for drink , she is likely to feel the effects of alcohol sooner . |
| 30 | When the boat has heeled too far it tries to turn up into the wind and a lot of rudder movement is needed to keep it straight . |