Example sentences of "are [verb] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theatres all over the world performers are expected to turn up at the ‘ half ’ to start making up . |
| 2 | Although it 's not yet certain exactly where the British armoured forces will be deployed , the four landing ships are expected to join up with the twelve-strong Royal Navy patrol in the Gulf of Amman . |
| 3 | However , things are apparently still up in the air and OEMs are expected to gang up on the doorstep to get their two cents in . |
| 4 | Some of the lower-density crystals are shown swept up into the convecting layer . |
| 5 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 6 | It does n't know for certain , so it simply doubles whatever free space it thinks is left — after all the software is n't psychic and ca n't know what files are going to wind up on the hard disk . |
| 7 | This is the last year of the real recession and people are beginning to wake up to the opportunities . ’ |
| 8 | Christians across the spectrum are beginning to wake up to the living vitality of the Holy Spirit . |
| 9 | The locals are getting wound up about the game . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , two stragglers and a dog are running to catch up with the main party ( 2 ) . |
| 11 | SSDs are failing to live up to the Children Act requirements to provide an ethnically sensitive service for black children in their care . |
| 12 | They are encouraged to speak up at the regular meetings for care assistants , which are held three times a week . |
| 13 | Here , while journalists strive earnestly to shed their previous role as mere mouthpieces of dictatorial regimes , they are forced to face up to the enormous financial difficulties involved in surviving in the market-place , without the comfortable support they formerly received from the state . ’ |
| 14 | MANCHESTER United 's Paul Parker and Garry Parker of Aston Villa are poised to join up with the England squad today . |
| 15 | We are trying to keep up with the Germans , whose central bankers call their four and a half per cent inflation rate monstrously high , and would barely tolerate a return to two per cent . |