Example sentences of "up [prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contact is then set up between these groups and eventually a member of the computer department , called , usually , a systems analyst , will be assigned to assess the feasibility of such a system , and a communication or dialogue is begun between the systems analyst and members of the user department . |
| 2 | Better have some O neg. sent up for immediate use as well . |
| 3 | The traffic had jammed up for one thing and then we were treated to the sight of the guy in the rabbit costume ( it must have been male , women do n't run like that ) tearing down the street carrying a sledgehammer , hotly pursued by two policemen trying to keep their helmets on . |
| 4 | Put it in the fridge to firm up for 2–3 hours and then remove and leave to set overnight : if you chill everything except the aspic in the freezer beforehand , the terrine will set in half an hour . |
| 5 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 6 | For a while , the most successful pop groups had the power to shift mass consciousness to an unprecedented degree and this confidence expressed itself in a plethora of new sexualities brought into the public eye , offered up for public consumption and then put into practice in people 's lives . |
| 7 | Keeping on the go can become a habit and there are very many people who could manage to let up for ten minutes or more in the course of most days , with a bit of careful planning . |
| 8 | The treatment intervals before radiotherapy are given for the patients who were followed up for three months or more while undergoing laser treatment . |
| 9 | You say your life is too precious to give it up for any country and yet it 's not valuable enough for you to pay me two hundred pounds not to shoot you . |
| 10 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 11 | 1 The chief characteristic of society is that it is " open " and made up of many interests that freely and automatically form themselves into a whole variety of groups . |
| 12 | Even now there are theories which say that quarks are made up of other things and so on , so I mean who knows . |
| 13 | The Act also provides the setting up of duty-free zones and perhaps for our present purpose it is sufficient to say that companies established in a duty-free zone are treated in every way as if they were established outside of the borders of the Hungarian Republic . |
| 14 | We came up against official incompetence as soon as we arrived in Spain . |
| 15 | The third sister , Mrs. Price has made an imprudent marriage as she has allowed her feeling to overtake her judgement and finally ends up with little money and too many children . |
| 16 | If you continue to knit , you will end up with dropped stitches and probably jam the carriage after a very short time . |
| 17 | And you will , if you do n't end up with a house fire you may end up with nasty burns or even electric shock . |
| 18 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |
| 19 | With about a third of a cup of milk , you mix it up with some sugar and then you put boiling water in . |
| 20 | One is very pure satire , and he comes up with this idea as well . |
| 21 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 22 | He tore the pages up into big pieces and then he tore the big pieces up into tiny pieces . |
| 23 | Moreover , he had written it on pages that he could not at this moment tear up into big pieces and then into smaller pieces . |
| 24 | I think the proof of the pudding was that y you know you finished up in twelve minutes and arguably you have three minutes could have been spent floating around just chatting about this , that and the other . |
| 25 | During the great railroad strike of 1877 , for example , 45,000 militiamen were called up in eleven states and more than 100 strikers were killed and several hundred were wounded . |
| 26 | Lloyd stopped tuning up Beeby 's legs and looked up in genuine surprise and then disgust . |
| 27 | Anyway , everybody rushed out into the kitchen and cook found some ice and wrapped it up in white cloth and then this woman picked up the toad and put it back in the garden but with the ice in her hands . |
| 28 | When you have finally made your purchase , it is nearly always wrapped up in brown paper and carefully tied with string or something more elaborate . |
| 29 | And the first is to pick up on concealed households and just to add to the points that have already been made that erm neither the House Builders Federation nor ourselves are assuming that all be housed , but the projected number is five thousand whereas we 're housing three thousand odd of them . |
| 30 | The absolute number of adults classed as disabled increases continuously with age up to 79 years and then decreases slightly . |