Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am sorry to interrupt your cosy chat , Martin , but Daddy 's dying to go up to the bar for a drink and we 've promised to stop by Carolyn Roach 's house later on . ’ |
| 2 | The company is also to change its name from Merrydown Wine to Merrydown plc and is applying to move up from the USM to the main market in January . |
| 3 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 4 | I have to use sleeping tablets to help me sleep at night because I 'm dreading getting up in the morning in case anything 's happened further . |
| 5 | The consequence of the Knoyles ' poverty and the Hutchings ' absenteeism over the previous two centuries was that the Manor House had a miraculous escape from Georgian owners wanting to keep up with the times . |
| 6 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 7 | ‘ He said he was going to drive up to the Spaniard 's for a drink . |
| 8 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 9 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 10 | I think perhaps I 'd put that another way , but I do think there 's a definite sense in which change is going to come up through the colleges . |
| 11 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 12 | Racing to catch up with the industry 's evolution , Comdex ’ owner Interface Group is launching Enterprise Computing Exposition and Conference set for Chicago 's McCormick Place July 26–28 next year . |
| 13 | ‘ I walked round her bed I could see her lying face up under the bedclothes , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Buzz found herself lying face up in the snow , in great pain , unable to move : as helpless as a black beetle flipped on to its back . |
| 15 | But five days after he moved in he was found by staff horribly scalded across his back and chest lying face up in the bath . |
| 16 | The body was lying face up in the rain . |
| 17 | I need to put the date in my diary cos they 're going to fill up during the summer so you |
| 18 | did n't realize that half the family was going to end up on the dole did we ? |
| 19 | Glad to hear they are not going to end up on the table . |
| 20 | Duncan hoped that the drink was n't going to end up in the cockpit . |
| 21 | But they 're , they 're the gov they 're going to end up in the government . |
| 22 | It was n't just here and now , he was part of the past and he was going to sign up for the WEA history and archaeology classes . |
| 23 | After watching a few people jumping and getting caught up in the excitement and atmosphere , I decided I would love to have a shot , much to the family 's amazement and Sandy 's amusement . |
| 24 | You said something — about getting caught up in the action — |
| 25 | I was getting caught up in the rat race and thin round the edges spiritually , when the Lord stepped in and reminded me of a promise He made before we left Kent . |
| 26 | However , it too is thought to be moving to catch up with the market . |
| 27 | The locals are getting wound up about the game . |
| 28 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 29 | The thought of getting hung up with the council care people was horrific . |
| 30 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |