Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One scratchcard in six is expected to come up with a prize between £1 and £100 . |
| 2 | Provision was also made to carry up to a 2,000lb bomb load under the lower wings . |
| 3 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
| 4 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 5 | Yeah , but you 've got to come up with a cost somewhere , that 's got to be . |
| 6 | Complimentary ‘ Carta Venezia ’ for all guests staying 7 nights or more which can be used to obtain up to a 60% reduction on public waterboats ( 2 passport photos required ) . |
| 7 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 8 | What was more , they 've had to put up with a relief milker while their herdsman was laid up with flu . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I am remembering ; and please remember , too , Great-grandmother , that I am not a miss any more ; I am a married woman who has run your house for years and has had to put up with a man of your choosing . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She 's a very sensitive child , though she 's had to put up with a lot already , her mother being ill so much . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll tell you what , ’ he said , ‘ you can have it for £60 as that 's the last size 10 I 've got , and I 've got to pack up in a minute and it 's raining . |
| 12 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |
| 13 | S so th th there 's a variety of different skills involved in there , the the mechanical the till and the knowing what to do with cheques , credit cards , er , have you got a sense of when you 've got to check up on a card , or something like that . |
| 14 | For a sustained output from IC2 however , capacitor C5 is enabled to charge up to a level exceeding that on pin 2 of the op.amp and the output switches high , so turning transistor TR5 on and operating the relay which closes RLA1 contacts . |
| 15 | On arrival , conference participants were invited to sign up for a workshop of their choice . |
| 16 | Instead the 20 District Health authorities involved were asked to come up with a £9,000 each by tomorrow afternoon . |
| 17 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |
| 18 | From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish . |
| 19 | He has n't got much time left to come up with a challenge for 1992 . |
| 20 | To clear this last hurdle I was forced to queue up outside a shed with a number of soldiers . |
| 21 | And the Russians looked to have been the victims of psychological warfare when they were left to warm up without a practice ball . |
| 22 | Last week , Jarman had n't quite decided whether they were to talk to the audience or simply sleep through the exhibition 's four-day run — ‘ although they 'll be allowed to get up for a pee and lunch , ’ he added generously . |
| 23 | Our students are encouraged to spend up to a year of their LLB abroad under the ERASMUS link . |
| 24 | The 1959 Defence White Paper announced that the Army would be allowed to recruit up to a ceiling of 180,000 ‘ to ensure that its strength shall not fall below the planned figure of 165,000 ’ — a lame excuse since this requirement was just as valid in 1957 . |
| 25 | Underwing bomb racks could be fitted to carry up to a 2,00lb bomb load , or alternatively two Mk VIII or Mk X Whitehead torpedoes could be carried . |
| 26 | ‘ Because it seems they 've managed to come up with a bone marrow donor . ’ |
| 27 | Basically , the problem is this : due to the sprite limitations of the C64 nobody — as yet — has managed to come up with a routine that would allow more than ten Lemmings on-screen simultaneously . |
| 28 | We got a call from them recently and , apparently they 've managed to come up with a program that WILL allow for a hundred Lemmings on-screen at once — although they would not be animated to any degree whatsoever . |
| 29 | Apparently I 'd chosen to pee up against a police station , so they took me inside , and told me off , and of course I apologized . |
| 30 | A former Grand National jockey charged with burglary and deception has failed to turn up for a court appearance . |