Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] up [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He said he was going to drive up to the Spaniard 's for a drink . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I need to put the date in my diary cos they 're going to fill up during the summer so you |
| 8 | did n't realize that half the family was going to end up on the dole did we ? |
| 9 | Glad to hear they are not going to end up on the table . |
| 10 | Duncan hoped that the drink was n't going to end up in the cockpit . |
| 11 | But they 're , they 're the gov they 're going to end up in the government . |
| 12 | However , it too is thought to be moving to catch up with the market . |
| 13 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 14 | His wife , not deigning to look up from the page , smiled to herself slightly . |
| 15 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 16 | They 'd be on cup three or four amid the toast fragments , still relaxed but just beginning to wake up to the day 's promise , when Mrs Goreng and myself would join them for what was left of the luke-warm coffee . |
| 17 | The City was beginning to wake up to the fact that the Labour movement , all told , had a great deal of money at its disposal — especially in the pension funds of Labour-controlled local authorities . |
| 18 | He could see the River Thames below with the new high-rise housing blocks already beginning to show up on the skyline . |
| 19 | Got a wardrobe like ours and then oh no it is n't it 's a combination one it 's having to go up through the window let's hope they do n't drop it ! |
| 20 | Most owners , however , will keep the engine speed between 2000rpm and 4500rpm where there is sufficient torque to outperform any remaining GTi without having to put up with the din from a high-revving multi-valve power GTi unit . |
| 21 | The 28-year-old graduate from Bristol University was fined at the end of last season for failing to turn up for the team coach travelling to the FA Cup final after discovering he had been dropped in favour of the fit-again Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 22 | Mr Banham accused Conservative MPs of failing to wake up to the issue , and of being ‘ intellectually absent by command of the whips . |
| 23 | Great ; he could get the little bastard without having to get up from the floor . |
| 24 | His first revolt against the culture of women 's subordination was " against my mother having to get up in the morning , like they all did , to cut the bread for the lads . |
| 25 | It 's the children crying to be fed , and having to get up in the morning and pawn whatever you 've got left to buy four rolls for breakfast or a kilo of sugar . |
| 26 | She was having to face up to the confusion in her : that she was married to a man she loved but there was this ‘ Boy-in-the-box ’ . ’ |
| 27 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 28 | They seem to be trying to catch up with the West of the Fifties . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Who 's Isobel ? ’ asked Mr Stych , trying to catch up with the tale . |
| 30 | She was trying to stand up in the pool but could n't because of the costume . |