Example sentences of "who [vb -s] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God help the feller who turns up at the factory to work in silk knickers under his overalls , but at Christmas , of course , on a stage , of course , it 's all perfectly all right . |
| 2 | The railway will be operating as normal and anyone who turns up on the day can join in the fun . |
| 3 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 4 | It is like a man who storms up to the top of a great mountain and then just drops down . |
| 5 | The story-line and the characters may seem incredible — like beautiful Remedios who floats up into the heavens while folding the household sheets and is never seen again — but Marquez defies you to disbelieve in them . |
| 6 | Er , er , a man who grows up under the shadow of his father , as it were . |
| 7 | Although , for the man who checks up on the standard of Britain 's prisons , there 's still some way to go . |
| 8 | Fernando ( Jorge Sanz ) is a deserter who fetches up at the country home of Manolo , a lazy old artist . |
| 9 | The best-kept literary secret of Manhattan is the chap ( ’ Call me Ed ’ ) who pops up on the West Side , on the pavement opposite the Beacon Theatre , for two hours every Saturday and Sunday afternoon . |
| 10 | From time expired senior registrar who despairs of finding that elusive consultant job to the frustrations of the mature , would be medical student who comes up against the agist admissions policies of many British medical schools . |
| 11 | Manners , above all , should be about behaving the same way to everyone you meet ; a person who sucks up to the nobs and snubs those he regards as his ‘ inferiors ’ is manifestly not a gent . |