Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she suddenly landed up in hospital for what was not an emergency ; several times she had found herself in a new home ; and on one occasion she had arrived in another country with a new ‘ father ’ — all without warning or previous explanation . |
| 2 | When it passes out of his hands , Gollum is so eaten up with desire for the Ring that even though he has become evil he helps Frodo find Mount Doom in order to stay with the Ring . |
| 3 | On Wednesday , facing demands for more detail , Mr Lamont 's deputy , Michael Portillo , and the Treasury said that benefits would only go up in proportion to the RPI . |
| 4 | All serious sport kite flyers are advised to join and so keep up to date with their official manual . |
| 5 | Here are the Angerholme Pots , all lined up for inspection over a straight half-mile . |
| 6 | And finally bang up to date with the Red Arrows : they will be just one of fifteen air display teams performing at Fairford . |
| 7 | And finally bang up to date with the Red Arrows : they will be just one of fifteen air display teams performing at Fairford . |
| 8 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 9 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 10 | When he brought her back he just drew up in front of the villa , jumped out , opened door , kissed hand , ‘ Bon soir , Madame , ’ and he was off . |
| 11 | Relying upon authority rather than cultivating widespread support , he soon came up against resistance from those who detected a tampering with the basic fabric of Orthodoxy . |
| 12 | So if we just add up over sort of the time horizon of this person , this person 's life , right , his expected wage in agriculture , right , it 's going to be this , this , this area here . |
| 13 | I just pop up from time to time to see if Bob 's all right . ’ |
| 14 | Hoarding was frowned on , but tinned beans and peas , sugar , flour , anything that could be stored , was soon piling up on top of wardrobes and in garden sheds . |
| 15 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 16 | I HAVE just set up in business as a limited company . |
| 17 | Anyone wishing to join the Liss club and perhaps start training now for next year 's race should just turn up for training on Wednesday evenings ( 7 p.m. ) and Sunday mornings ( 9.30 a.m . ) . |
| 18 | So I always sit up in bed for ages really wide awake , and I 'm reading and doing all sorts of thinking like things , and I 'd be talking to Ben , and he would say yeah , yeah , and he 's really vague as well , and I , I get really angry and then I think you can tell because then you tend to lean across and say , are you alright , are you alright , and I just find it makes it worse . |
| 19 | Miranda hardly ever got up for breakfast at the weekends , but on Miles ' first morning she appeared punctually at half past eight . |
| 20 | But nothing will ever make up for Amar for the total loss of mother , father , entire family , house and everything . |
| 21 | APIVOTAL £21million stake in besieged merchant bank Morgan Grenfell was yesterday put up for auction by Hanson as talks which could have heralded a Morgan-BZW merger broke down . |
| 22 | Fourth Division Cardiff City were yesterday put up for sale at £2 million by the club 's financial controller . |
| 23 | But the dear old garment mysteriously turned up for sale at an auction in our social club . |
| 24 | And I still fill up with petrol by the gallons . |
| 25 | So , is Chinese art still collectable , can a dealer still set up with stock of quality ? |
| 26 | Unfortunately , ad hoc bibliographies date quickly and are not always brought up to date after initial publication . |
| 27 | There are many other more common causes of aortic incompetence , including rheumatic fever , but cases of syphilitic aortic-valve disease still turn up from time to time in this country , albeit rarely . |
| 28 | Not just any portrait painter , either , but one who might possibly end up as part of the family and on whom it was therefore important to make a good impression . |
| 29 | Sadly , 300 kids a year die as a result of accidents in the home and hundreds of thousands more end up in hospital after some — preventable — mishap . |
| 30 | When Liddie returned home she had difficulties breastfeeding her baby and quickly gave up in favour of using a bottle . |