Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will take years for Albania to catch up with the standards of medicine in other European countries but not all the news is negative . |
| 2 | ‘ Never needed one , ’ the beautiful barmaid explained , as Cornelius settled up for the bread and board . |
| 3 | As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control . |
| 4 | That is why the people of Scotland rose up against the rating system . |
| 5 | The hamlet of Blinkbonny grew up during the late 19th and early 20th century alongside Blinkbonny Farm . |
| 6 | In February of 1982 , the Sunni fundamentalists of Hama rose up against the Alawite regime . |
| 7 | There are sharp-edged pieces of Lego mixed up with the bedding and an old cardboard box lying across his chest . |
| 8 | The city of Vienna ended up under the control of all four occupying powers . |
| 9 | There was another stream to drink from , perhaps an opportunity to visit some of the gorge 's ‘ five considerable caverns ’ , and in the scene as a whole , images enough for Coleridge to store up for the poetry of the future . |
| 10 | As the sun begins to set , I drive along Vermont gazing up at the eerie silhouettes of young Korean men armed with M-16s , machine pistols and infra-red binoculars . |
| 11 | Despite Hayatou 's appeal for calm and his announcement of a policy of " dialogue , consultation and national reconciliation " , a meeting on May 2 at Yaoundé University between students and the chancellor to prepare for a consultation with Hayatou broke up with the arrival of troops . |
| 12 | A band called Eric And The Good Good Feeling and a stint with EMI led up to the original UFI deal and now finally maybe Frankë 's time has come . |
| 13 | It was a nagging frustration for Mary to go up to the Ryans and not be able to talk about what was going on at Riverstown . |
| 14 | The 22-year-old from Sheffield signed up as the sport 's first big-money professional with a one-year contract worth £8,300 a month from the newly-launched Professional Pool Federation . |
| 15 | Erm , it was called the Marseillaise , erm , because the volunteers from Marseilles came up from the south , and entered Paris and they were singing , erm , this one . |
| 16 | The arrival of flight IB 640 from Tenerife came up on the screen . |
| 17 | ‘ The twenty-five ships from Denmark got up to the Orkney ships , ’ the signalman said , ‘ and surrounded them . |
| 18 | BUSINESSMEN in Shanghai lined up at the weekend for the city 's first auction of lucky telephone numbers since the 1949 revolution . |
| 19 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 20 | It is a long time since any potential national leader in Britain leapt up from the starting-blocks in quite such a dramatic way . |
| 21 | From Elterwater go up to the crest of the ridge separating Elterwater from Grasmere ( 0.75 miles ) via a path passing between Red Bank and Dow Bank . |
| 22 | At the same time any talk of strong policies in Europe ran up against the belief that the continent was indefensible for the foreseeable future . |
| 23 | All the master puppeteers of pop had done was speed up the sophisticated , satin-smooth voice of the boy from Newton-le-Willows in Lancashire to end up with the higher-pitched , female version — Kylie . |
| 24 | A group from Switzerland turned up on the doorstep of Low Birk Hatt on her birthday ( they knew — they had gifts ) , a whole cheese arrived overland from New Zealand , and the rooms at the farm began to fill up . |
| 25 | The time had now come for Eric to go up into the Apennines on behalf of the Commission to pay and honour all those Italians , for the most part peasants , who had helped and in many cases saved the lives of escaping prisoners-of-war . |
| 26 | The second round of meetings between the commission on self-determination , chaired by Ada , and a task force on Guam set up by the administration of US President Bush was held on Feb. 22-23 , 1990 , to discuss the next steps in drafting the Commonwealth Bill . |
| 27 | But they have had since January to come up with the $570m that Mr Bush requested as emergency aid and compensation for post-invasion Panama . |
| 28 | To the Edinburgh , at least the Scotland passengers , to Carstairs to connect up to the main Glasgow Central to Liverpool , Birmingham and there were all these places . |
| 29 | His place will be taken by Doddie Weir ( Melrose ) who will leave Edinburgh on Sunday to meet up with the squad when they arrive in Hong Kong on Monday . |
| 30 | News on Sunday ended up with the worst of both worlds — a paper with metropolitan Right-On concerns , produced in a city that had fallen off the edge of the Right-On world . |