Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , if the wind is squally it may end up with the wrong wing down in a fierce cross wind . |
| 2 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 3 | Gripping and polished — it should clean up at the box office this autumn . |
| 4 | ‘ Those who argue that maybe we should just once more try to delay it must face up to the responsibility that they may , by their good intentions , create much more suffering than anything we have seen so far . |
| 5 | It must reach up beyond the walls of that particular yard within which a child is brought up . |
| 6 | The Board of Customs & Excise has also indicated ‘ some pleasure ’ at the proposals and the IITP is optimistic that it might end up as the internal examining body for the department . |
| 7 | On the other it might end up with the negative attitudes about dementia and care for dementia sufferers attaching to the segregated units . " |
| 8 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
| 9 | So it 'll come up at the next C S N T . |
| 10 | Kenneth Baker indicated recently that he thinks such a plan should go ahead ; if he can persuade his government colleagues that the scheme could make a real contribution to economic growth it could start up by the Spring . |
| 11 | But it could end up as the only game in town . ’ |
| 12 | It could end up like the Little Big Horn . |
| 13 | With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life . |
| 14 | If it could bring its cost-effectiveness nearer the average , it could recruit up to the establishment that the Home Secretary has recommended . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I thought I would wear my thick coat because it might be cold waiting for the bus and it would stand up to the rain . |
| 16 | It would come up in the conversation all the time , ‘ So you 've been separated from your husband and you have no boyfriends ? ’ — No — ‘ Are n't you interested in having boyfriends ? ’ — No — Because she was man-mad she could n't understand why I was n't . |
| 17 | It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It will make up for the dismal showing of the England football and cricket teams , lift some of the sporting gloom . |
| 19 | Share your thought with the class — if , ha ha , it will bear up to the glaring light of day . |
| 20 | The recent history of educational innovation , from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards , shows that unless change is generated and/or wholeheartedly appropriated by teachers it will end up on the mounting scrap-heap of ‘ good ideas that never quite took off ’ . |
| 21 | The other members of the consortium are worried about what 's going to happen , and if we do if we do leave it to later on Chairman , the , we have every danger that the consortium will not be a core activity of the new authorities , it will end up in the residual body , and be , and just be sold . |
| 22 | And it will go either it will come up to the surface itself or it 'll just disappear . |
| 23 | The company says it will come up with the costings for demolition and restoration in a couple of weeks . |
| 24 | The Jot 1.0 specification is designed to enable applications to share handwritten notes , sketches , signatures and other free-form data across the generality of computers from hand-held devices to mainframes , so that if someone scrawls a note and sends it over a modem , it will turn up at the other end as handwriting , regardless of the sending and receiving machines , provided only that they both implement Jot 1.0 . |
| 25 | But clearly the it forms two purposes , one is to remove the er the through traffic but also it it forms a purpose of redistribution of the traffic such that er there are er benefits er of getting er traffic off the A sixty one which for example is headed for the for the northern part of Harrogate and that that can come in from the South , it can go up to the A fifty nine and then come back into the northern part of Harrogate without having to pass through the centre of Harrogate . |
| 26 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |