Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no clue to contemporary thinking at the DTp throughout the 1970's : indeed , it was not until 1987 that a new standard reference work was published which could reasonably be expected to provide up to the minute advice on traffic planning in existing urban areas . |
| 2 | Secondly , there is the regional flood defence committee , whose members will be expected to come up with the lion 's share of the cash . |
| 3 | The horses all looked spruced up for the occasion with plaited manes , even the two disgruntled piebald ponies on which perched two identical solemn-faced small girls . |
| 4 | Sun was expected to line up alongside the rest of the takers , but did n't complete negotiations in time . |
| 5 | They will play half a game each with new signing Eric Cantona , and one of them will be picked to line up alongside the Frenchman in the Manchester derby tomorrow week — the other will have to kick his heels . |
| 6 | The Portadown midfielder is expected to link up with the Glens following agreement on a fee between managers Ronnie McFall and Robert Strain . |
| 7 | However , things are apparently still up in the air and OEMs are expected to gang up on the doorstep to get their two cents in . |
| 8 | Even Mervyn , whose hands were flying across the keys of his accordion , was seen to gape up towards the thing dancing like a huge firefly in the dusk . |
| 9 | Artemis asked , as she stood admiring her fifteenth birthday present , a stunning looking dark brown thoroughbred gelding which Jenkins had been instructed to lead up outside the house as a surprise . |
| 10 | Yet around the time that Servan-Schreiber was receiving his first royalty cheques , oriental faces could be seen popping up behind the walls at the Isle of Man TT races . |
| 11 | Just think what we have struggled to build up over the years , for what we call job security . |
| 12 | Never , since he was a child , had he missed coming up to the Foinmen on Beltane . |
| 13 | In so far as the polytechnics today do in fact offer a wide range of advanced courses on different bases of study , they can also be said to live up to the description of being ‘ comprehensive ’ in that respect . |
| 14 | But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing . |
| 15 | She thought it might be the one that was always being made to speak up for the others , but she could n't be sure ; it 's difficult to tell one beetle from another . |
| 16 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 17 | Tommy is pressed face up against the wall , arms handcuffed behind his back . |
| 18 | This card may be placed face up at the table edge or with the unit to indicate that it is affected . |
| 19 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 20 | I I 've got mixed up with the names of the things . |
| 21 | She said well I should imagine that 's what 's happened the paper work here has got muddled up with the other . |
| 22 | Over the next few years the Assistant Librarian , Miss Liddell , probably got fed up with the sight of me as I used to get through several books each week and must have read most of the stock . |
| 23 | This one , he said , pointing to Bobby , he had had to pick up in the street . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But yesterday it was the shaky Government that desperately needed propping up behind the mass of steel at fortress Downing Street . |
| 26 | We have got to face up to the Warner Report as well , which is to do with staffing in community homes , and again , that 's an issue which we can pick up later , as we go into detailed reports . |
| 27 | A : Well , I suppose I would — that would be the ideal situation , but I think you 've got to face up to the reality of the whole thing . |
| 28 | And yet because you 've come from a P A Y E background , you feel you 've got to get up in the morning , and go to work . |
| 29 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 30 | Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings . |