Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 2 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 3 | Socialist Worker appeared to be soaking up the potential trade union readership , while the audience of students in revolt could dwindle — although with the formation of the Revolutionary Socialists Student Federation there were hopes that the ‘ new vanguard ’ might survive to detonate the proletarian uprising . |
| 4 | If problems do not have to be referred up a scalar chain of command to senior managers for a decision , decision-making will be quicker . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to do well for the club but I seem to be heading up a blind alley and maybe a move is the only solution . |
| 6 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 7 | He felt as abject as a convalescent child and had to be helped up the three stone flights to his cell . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , she allowed herself to be helped up the high step and onto a bunk opposite the one on which Robbie was now lying … |
| 9 | Royalty was to be one-twelfth and this to be paid at the end of every half-year : the said ore to be weighed up every three months and the banks to be cleared at the end of every such three months after weighing up . |