Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er But I 've known that story about the er about them coming up that way and they stayed at the the burnside at Dalvaine . |
| 2 | There 's no point in sending them off on endless — no doubt excellent — courses if there 's no incentive for them to use up large slices of their spare time in teaching the game . |
| 3 | Alexandra wondered if there was a feature in it : successful younger women , the varied careers it was possible for them to take up these days , the chances they had to rise to the top in their chosen professions , whether or not those professions were less orthodox than the ones chosen by their male counterparts . |
| 4 | The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co-operatives and credit unions . |
| 5 | Some jobs were too short-lived for them to build up sufficient contributions to acquire eligibility for unemployment benefit . |
| 6 | Two Sustrans sculptures on the Edinburgh — Glasgow cycle route were ceremoniously ‘ unveiled ’ during the summer by veteran CTC members Ted Zoller and Walter Browne , who have between them clocked up 150 years of membership of the club . |
| 7 | If the imbecilic members of the family can find no useful occupation , and Church of England still refuses to have them , then we find most of them dressing up curious uniforms , indulging in unspecified sado masochistic rituals , salutin' and marchin' . |
| 8 | Keep the length of extension leads as short as you can to reduce the risk of them picking up stray radiations from nearby electrical appliances and short wave broadcasts such as taxi radio messages . |
| 9 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 10 | She went past him gathering up unsevered clusters of candles which had been hung like fruit above a tank . |
| 11 | I was really pleased to get so much in the way of useful comment and feedback — a lot of it bringing up incidental considerations that we clearly have n't yet given enough thought to . |
| 12 | That 's why he 's not doing so well at the moment : people like you to put up some pretence that you 're interested in something other than money , even if you are in the insurance business . |
| 13 | Worse atrocities had occurred in Scotland , but ‘ the massacre of Glencoe ’ was taken up by the government 's critics , and has remained a convenient stick with which to stir up nationalistic sentiment ever since . |
| 14 | He has three seamstresses on tour with him to run up new outfits . |
| 15 | Immigration to Britain , a country of net emigration ( which means that more people emigrate from it than immigrate to it ) did not in itself throw up social problems but it served to highlight social deprivation . |
| 16 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 17 | The new legislation encouraged them into a buying spree that led to their picking up such distribution companies as Ideal and C. M. Woolf 's W&F Film Services , and sufficient cinema circuits to build a chain of 316 theatres . |
| 18 | Since a mother generally has a new baby every four and a half years , there may have been pressure on her to speed up each youngster 's training , to leave time to care for the latest addition to the family . |
| 19 | Around them grew up short streets of cottages for the workpeople , run up so quickly that they look as though they were planted flat on the surface , without any foundations ; but still there was no congestion . |