Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother always got annoyed when that story came up in conversation , and I made sure that it frequently did . |
| 2 | Volunteers from each canteen dressed up in Santa Claus suits and took buckets round the contractors to raise money . |
| 3 | I am aware that Carl Bridgewater 's parents must suffer every time this case comes up for review , but they too , surely , must want true justice to prevail . |
| 4 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 5 | Another girl caught up in Roman 's potent charisma ? |
| 6 | When this manuscript came up for sale in London in 1980 , its estimated value was £40,000-£60,000 . |
| 7 | When will the Secretary of State accept responsibility for the crisis in education provision in Cambridgeshire , or does he believe that it is just another scare got up by pupils , parents , teachers and Conservative county councillors in that county ? |
| 8 | Six of us : me , Gill , Oliver , Mme Wyatt , my sister ( married , separated , changed her name — what did I tell you ? ) and an aged aunt of some sort dug up by Mme Wyatt at the last minute . |
| 9 | Welcome to Ireland , and their comfortable , confusing , delightful brand of hospitality — And did they always keep this room made up for guests ? |
| 10 | This place called up at war 's behest |
| 11 | Another proverb floated up in Grimma 's mind . |
| 12 | This was just what Artemis did n't want , some thruster charging up behind Hullabaloo whom she had just got settled , and trying to make a race of it , particularly with the big hedge fast approaching at the bottom of the dip . |
| 13 | Thus laden , I rode the 20 miles to Picton and caught the ferry ; stayed overnight in Wellington and then took the train to Auckland — no problems in putting the bike aboard ; and this journey lived up to expectations and surpassed them ; the scenery through the ‘ King Country ’ in autumn is quite unrivalled , and again looks like a superb area for a cycle tour . |
| 14 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |
| 15 | This lot grew up on TV |
| 16 | He thought it must be one of the maids with some food sent up by Claudia . |
| 17 | Another idea thrown up by interferon research has been to make synthetic analogues of the 2',5'-oligoadenylate molecules formed in response to interferon and which activate the nuclease enzyme to break down viral messenger RNA . |
| 18 | The importance of support is almost certainly to some extent bound up with self-esteem and the ability of the individual to cope with difficulties as they arise ( Brown et al. , 1986a ; Pearlin et al. , 1981 ) Given that adverse life events can bring about affective disorders , this is hardly surprising as a general conclusion . |
| 19 | Continue on track as it bends right then curves round edge of large field , then past a second building and up minor ridge , where it meets another track coming up from right . |
| 20 | That bloke phoned up about Batty and then went on to say that leeds ( Alan Roberts especially ) are equally bad to their own fans . |
| 21 | A good guideline on how much memory to use up with stitch patterns and still leave enough over for techniques and so forth , is that three patterns of the maximum size of 15,840 bits will take 47,520 bits . |
| 22 | He said to one of his chaplains that Ramsey spent too much time theologizing up in York instead of tackling problems practically . |
| 23 | It would be one thing if all pork went up in price , but if European producers still use old methods , they will undercut farmers here . |
| 24 | He 's actually sacked his own foreman , the main contractor cos the main , the foreman turned up on site and this I think is one of the lessons to be learnt , is that foreman turned up on site and saw what was happening |
| 25 | Less money swallowed up by commission |
| 26 | With more and more money tied up in investment and machinery , firms would be unable to buy off workers during slumps and class conflict would be raised . |
| 27 | Pray every day that God will fill you with the Holy Spirit so that you have more courage to speak up for Jesus . |
| 28 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 29 | And IBM , like Xerox and a few others , encouraged any employee to spend up to 10% of his time on community activities of his choice . |
| 30 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |