Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 2 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 3 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 4 | ‘ I can see the point he was trying to make — the Pallas ' Sandgrouse only turns up in this country once every 10 or 20 years . |
| 5 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 6 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 7 | In Britain , it is almost entirely made up of upper-middle class , late-middle aged , white men . |
| 8 | In fact atoms are almost entirely made up of free space . |
| 9 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 10 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 11 | By now it was all adding up to one conclusion . |
| 12 | I was too defiant to return to such an art school , so cramped , so bunged up with petty authority . |
| 13 | Playing Richard is so bound up with physical attitude , and I think that as actors we are not well enough equipped to meet that kind of physical thinking in that kind of role . |
| 14 | No-one likes a relationship to fail , and most of us strive to stay in one , only giving up with great sadness and when the good in whatever we have shared is finally outweighed by the bad . |
| 15 | If I close this week with only seven , I may only end up with one sale , and that 's not gon na to give me the income I want and big H wants so I can take her out for a Chinese . |
| 16 | The assumption behind this shift was that an ideal black music would naturally link up with socialist politics . |
| 17 | Well she does n't necessarily end up in general practice does she ? |
| 18 | Still , ‘ Arry Boy was good enough to dress up as Old Father Time for our exclusive picture . |
| 19 | Any complaints from tenants will be swiftly followed up within one working day where possible . |
| 20 | So these are not based , they they are similar , they 're not out of line but erm they I mean I do n't think that you can necessarily pick up from past exam papers what 'll be on the next . |
| 21 | Judith Chegwidden , of Putney CLP , said a Labour government must be tough enough to face up to special interest groups and those , including herself , who had ‘ dangerous consumerist tendencies and want to own motor cars in urban areas — cars that pour out pollution and make people 's lives a misery ’ . |
| 22 | Instead of subsiding now that he was no longer touching her , the disturbance he had caused deepened as she looked at him and understood that the warning was a personal one , merely dressed up as professional advice . |
| 23 | It would seem highly unlikely , except at the times when falling piece rates forced them to , that domestic workers averaged such hours through the week , although they must have worked them on some days , if only to make up for slacker work early in the week . |
| 24 | and we we 've always thought that , you know , to have a beat officer that was going around that could perhaps turn up at any time , would at least be some deterrent in so much that |
| 25 | As Reyburn observes : ‘ Of course the necessity to flush ping-pong balls down the toilet rarely crops up in everyday life but the owner of a double-trap ‘ siphonic ’ can take comfort from the fact that she has the toilet for the job when it arises . ’ |
| 26 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
| 27 | The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country . |
| 28 | I was just catching up on some paperwork . |
| 29 | Anyone managing to get on top of the porch could easily clamber up through that bedroom window . |
| 30 | How did the particular teacher mentioned above match up with this list ? 1 , 3 , 5 , 6 and 7 ? |