Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bully , ’ said Angela , speaking very earnestly to the alsatian , ‘ here 's your chance to make up for the naughty things you 've done to me . |
| 2 | It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’ |
| 3 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
| 4 | The scouts were also working hard to keep up with the many breakfasts they cooked that morning . |
| 5 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 6 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
| 7 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 8 | Les come up with the same ideas I thought when I se , when we had bought it . |
| 9 | I can not sum up in a few sentences what will be the substance itself of my book . |
| 10 | Up in the remote villages they would be reason ably safe and the people would help them . |
| 11 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 12 | A dog otter 's territory can stretch for up to a dozen miles which gives some indication of their range . |
| 13 | We have n't really er when it got up to the bigger businesses we used |
| 14 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 15 | In my own turfs we are quarrelling among ourselves with intense energy about whether women can be ordained priests , about who is more Catholic than their neighbour and about a whole host of internal issues , because we apparently have neither the grace nor the guts to face up to the real issues which are the business of the Church in the current world . |
| 16 | You 'll be moving into largely featureless moorland here so compass skills are necessary as you make your way up to the Teifi pools which feed the Teifi river . |
| 17 | Concentrate instead on your own reputation by continuing to live up to the high standards you always set yourself . |
| 18 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 19 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 20 | Acknowledging their weaknesses and limitations to live up to the Christian ideals they realised the strength they would obtain from mutual help and formed themselves into Teams . |
| 21 | In later life the daughter may find herself self-condemned as , without adequate inner resources , she fails to live up to the ideal standards she has set for herself . |
| 22 | I trust you 'll find the other one to your satisfaction , though I fear it 's hardly up to the five-star standards you 're doubtless accustomed to . ’ |
| 23 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 24 | There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project . |
| 25 | Last week , in a stormy session , the European Parliament threw out a voluntary code proposed by officials at the European Commission , which had been drawn up by the baby-food companies themselves . |
| 26 | Spinrad says that such a huge range in velocity is quite unexpected It could be stirred up by the central jets which produce the radio emission . |