Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 2 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 3 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 5 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 6 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 7 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 8 | She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her . |
| 9 | He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back . |
| 10 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 11 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 12 | While we were on the beach below another tourist tried to climb up to the ruin ; but a flock of dive-bombing gulls , screaming histrionically , drove him off . |
| 13 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 14 | She seemed to light up at the idea . |
| 15 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 16 | Aunt Louise seemed to swell up like a bullfrog , her eyes about to pop out of her head . |
| 17 | At the mention of this word , Miss Trunchbull 's face turned purple and her whole body seemed to swell up like a bullfrog 's . |
| 18 | Whichever way you looked at it , that name seemed to come up at every turn : Rose Hilaire mother of Steve , employer of Lily , and niece of a body under Coffin 's floorboards . |
| 19 | She gripped the edge of the window sill , seemed to strain up on the window across the small of her back . |
| 20 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |
| 21 | Every bird in the wood seemed to fly up into the air . |
| 22 | The atmosphere was fantastic at the end as it seemed to build up over the rounds . |
| 23 | This instruction felt like a prison sentence , and condemned to stay up in the cloud , I scanned the instruments nervously , waiting for an unseen gust to grab our little craft . |
| 24 | Suddenly the entire class seemed to rise up against the Headmistress . |
| 25 | Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ? |
| 26 | The hearing , expected to last up to a fortnight , is into the deaths of brothers Michael Gerard Hart , 29 , and Martin Joseph Hart , 23 , and their brother-in-law Brian Mullin , 26 , all from the Sixmilecross area of Co Tyrone . |
| 27 | As the day wore on they heard everywhere around them the rill of running water , and grass began to poke up through the snow in clumps . |
| 28 | Here , with the concentration on labour-intensive crops , not only large estates with hired labour but large peasant farms also flourished , and even began to catch up with the estates . |
| 29 | Six miles away , at the mouth of the estuary , the four big transporters , converted specially for the task , lifted one by one from the pad and began to form up in a line across the river . |
| 30 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |