Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This jockeying for the truth may be fine for doctors engaged in expensive research , but where exactly does it leave the rest of us , constantly struggling to keep up with the latest medical thinking and changing our diets accordingly . |
| 2 | So that 's how you look after your bandages and all these things that we 're going to show you you 'll find in those little sections in your first aid book so if you get confused or why you 've only got to look up in the book . |
| 3 | It is vitally important that the engineer should be given as much information as possible and should not be merely invited to turn up at the site and work things out alone . |
| 4 | Do these all have to go up to the tower ? ’ |
| 5 | All teams , though , have much ground to make up on the Samoans , who in the course of their four ties at the weekend , scored 23 tries . |
| 6 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 7 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 8 | And I am not longer prepared to put up with the various parasitical fringe groups , ranging from the self-importantly irrelevant to the downright obnoxious , who are an unchanging part of the demo scene . |
| 9 | How long they had been ‘ carrying ’ their susceptibility to that cold around with them just waiting to meet up with the right bugs will depend upon the individual circumstances of each of them . |
| 10 | ‘ There comes a point when you 've just got to face up to the private hell you go through every day . ’ |
| 11 | So it should be assumed that a similar number of those who changed in the ‘ right ’ direction were similarly ill-informed about their new choice , and just happened to end up in the ‘ right ’ group by chance . |
| 12 | Britain 's savers and pensioners are just beginning to wake up to the possibilities of independent taxation of husbands and wives . |
| 13 | They 'd be on cup three or four amid the toast fragments , still relaxed but just beginning to wake up to the day 's promise , when Mrs Goreng and myself would join them for what was left of the luke-warm coffee . |
| 14 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 15 | He could see the River Thames below with the new high-rise housing blocks already beginning to show up on the skyline . |
| 16 | Add to these two schizophrenic cats , two bears with what look like severe cases of acne , and several reindeer who are just asking to end up on the wrong side of a roast dinner . |
| 17 | I shall just have to put up with the pain . ’ |
| 18 | It seems that England might just have to put up with the barracking of the public , press and the other home nations Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | You 'll just have to put up with the printer chugging away . |
| 20 | She 'll just have to face up to the fact that he 's guilty , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 21 | In my pocket I have the key he lent me , but if Jamie is not there I do n't want to sit in the wreckage of his flat till he finally decides to show up from the pub . |
| 22 | So he just had to put up with the noise . |
| 23 | He just had to turn up on the day . |
| 24 | When that final whistle went I just wanted to throw up in the sponge bag . |
| 25 | My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt . |
| 26 | Ticking off another tower is known as ‘ tower grabbing , and you always seem to end up in the pub afterwards ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ You know that the twins always seem to get up at the crack of dawn . |
| 28 | It was clear that he made her life happier than it had been , but she still had to put up with the desperately uncomfortable conditions and go out on her terrifying foraging expeditions . |
| 29 | But naturally not even legitimate authorities always succeed , nor do they always try to live up to the ideal . |
| 30 | As Dave suggests , it 's often more use to read up on the natural background of the fish than to read a fishkeeper 's account of breeding it . |