Example sentences of "up [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better have some O neg. sent up for immediate use as well . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We came up against official incompetence as soon as we arrived in Spain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With about a third of a cup of milk , you mix it up with some sugar and then you put boiling water in . |
| 8 | One is very pure satire , and he comes up with this idea as well . |
| 9 | Lloyd stopped tuning up Beeby 's legs and looked up in genuine surprise and then disgust . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For elastic materials the above ratios of harmonics are found with an accuracy of about 1 per cent up to ninth order or more . |
| 13 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |
| 14 | However , back in 1938 the Club 's survival was uppermost and up to that date and beyond , bondholders had had a poor deal , especially those on 3% interest . |
| 15 | He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century . |
| 16 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 17 | The rest of the car will also stand up to hard use as well , and diesel cars tend to have bigger batteries and more powerful electrical systems to cope with the greater demands of starting . |
| 18 | For simplicity , we assume that existing plant has a maximum capacity of Q units of output and the SMC is constant at the level c up to full capacity and then becomes vertical . |