Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 2 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 3 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 4 | Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’ |
| 5 | LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available . |
| 6 | If that image changes rapidly in time , as it would in a moving video sequence , for example , then a huge amount of digital information must be stored , transferred and processed to keep up with the requirements of delivering the motion video to the user . |
| 7 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 8 | Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome . |
| 9 | The name of the game , ‘ Grandmother 's Footsteps ’ is already a hint : the young and fit creeping up on the old , the halt and the lame . |
| 10 | This instruction felt like a prison sentence , and condemned to stay up in the cloud , I scanned the instruments nervously , waiting for an unseen gust to grab our little craft . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mr Tate said although they felt quite safe on the eighth floor it was disconcerting to see armed security guards and smoke bellowing up through the skyscrapers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Georg looked at her and for a moment she thought he was going to grab her , thought he was going to cry himself , but he suddenly stormed out of the dairy and began to stride up towards the lower pasture . |
| 15 | Soon genuine celebrities descended from on high and began showing up on the show . |
| 16 | Sometimes , when an eruption takes place within a large crater , the lava ca n't flow away , and gets ponded up in the crater . |
| 17 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 18 | But she just looks at me pityingly , like I was behind the times and needed to catch up with the latest ideas . ’ |
| 19 | Go left , down , right , then fall down , push the crate onto the button and go up on the lift , then left along the lower platform , push the crate left onto the switch , fall down , then go up on the lift , collect the speaker , fall down , go right and up on the lift , go left along the top platform , go up and left , go up on the lift , and continue going up on the platforms . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 22 | The two met at a rally and decided to team up for the Charrington RAC . |
| 23 | I suppose he 'll take it easy now and try to strengthen up for the winter |
| 24 | Gabriel was able to slide into it , head-first , over the edge of the platform , and lay curled up in the bottom , as still as a hedgehog in hibernation . |
| 25 | He cleared his throat once more and resumed staring up at the ceiling . |
| 26 | Wilcock had written about Haynes and his Edinburgh bookshop in the Village Voice soon after it had opened , and had popped up in the one-off Longhair Times too . |
| 27 | Straightening , he turned to Lori , who had gone as white as a sheet , and had backed up to the door like an animal at bay . |
| 28 | ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . ) |
| 29 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 30 | Matilda and Lavender shook their heads and continued to gaze up at the giant . |