Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [to-vb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theatres all over the world performers are expected to turn up at the ‘ half ’ to start making up . |
| 2 | Although it 's not yet certain exactly where the British armoured forces will be deployed , the four landing ships are expected to join up with the twelve-strong Royal Navy patrol in the Gulf of Amman . |
| 3 | However , things are apparently still up in the air and OEMs are expected to gang up on the doorstep to get their two cents in . |
| 4 | I need to put the date in my diary cos they 're going to fill up during the summer so you |
| 5 | Not just republican , we have loyalists as well and the loyalists have the potential for being the bigger and more effective of the two , and if we let the I R A to continue without interning them , you are going to have the situation deteriorating in the way which you do n't want and I do n't want , and you 're going to end up as the chief constable of the R U C said a few weeks ago with Dublin being bombed . |
| 6 | But they 're , they 're the gov they 're going to end up in the government . |
| 7 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 8 | By the way the lot of seemed to be played in Hertfordshire these days , and one of the great days is at Harpenden and that 's on September the first on Sunday , when they have their annual single-wicket competition , and that 's a great local event and it 's bound to encourage all the young cricketers in the neighbourhood , they 're trying to make up for the lack of cricket in schools , so well done Harpenden and that is on Sunday next , er , er , first of September and I 'll give you the time in a minute if I can find it , when it is , it does n't say , but it 's probably all day at the Harpenden club , well done Harpenden encouraging young people to play cricket , Sunday first September . |
| 9 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 10 | It does n't know for certain , so it simply doubles whatever free space it thinks is left — after all the software is n't psychic and ca n't know what files are going to wind up on the hard disk . |
| 11 | This is the last year of the real recession and people are beginning to wake up to the opportunities . ’ |
| 12 | Christians across the spectrum are beginning to wake up to the living vitality of the Holy Spirit . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , two stragglers and a dog are running to catch up with the main party ( 2 ) . |
| 14 | SSDs are failing to live up to the Children Act requirements to provide an ethnically sensitive service for black children in their care . |
| 15 | They are encouraged to speak up at the regular meetings for care assistants , which are held three times a week . |
| 16 | Here , while journalists strive earnestly to shed their previous role as mere mouthpieces of dictatorial regimes , they are forced to face up to the enormous financial difficulties involved in surviving in the market-place , without the comfortable support they formerly received from the state . ’ |
| 17 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 18 | MANCHESTER United 's Paul Parker and Garry Parker of Aston Villa are poised to join up with the England squad today . |
| 19 | We are trying to keep up with the Germans , whose central bankers call their four and a half per cent inflation rate monstrously high , and would barely tolerate a return to two per cent . |